Top Secret Canada: Understanding the Canadian Intelligence and National Security Community

"Top Secret Canada is a thorough and serious treatment of Canada’s multifaceted intelligence community and a significant contribution to the intelligence literature. It deserves a spot on the bookshelf of every scholar focused on Canadian defense and national security issues as well as the broader field of intelligence."

Joseph W. Gartin, CIA Sherman Kent School for Intelligence Analysis, Studies in Intelligence

"This is an extremely valuable collection that should be essential reading for practitioners in Canada and abroad, and for legislators, journalists, and the interested public."

J. L. Granatstein, emeritus, York University, CHOICE

"Top Secret Canada is a practitioner’s, politician’s, and academic’s essential resource on the activities, trends, and challenges facing the Canadian intelligence and national security community. Informative, accessible, and thought-provoking."

Andrea Charron, Director, Centre for Defence and Security Studies, University of Manitoba

"Carvin, Juneau, and Forcese have assembled a first-rate collection of authors. Together, they provide readers with an encyclopedic account of the past, present, and future of Canada's national security and intelligence apparatus."

Adam Chapnick, professor of defence studies, Canadian Forces College and Royal Military College of Canada

"This groundbreaking tour d’horizon of Canada’s national security and intelligence community provides us with an original and much needed examination of a crucial area of Canadian public administration."

Kim Richard Nossal, Centre for International and Defence Policy, Queen’s University

"Top Secret Canada is a comprehensive, in-depth, and up-to-date survey of the diverse actors who make up Canada’s national security community. A handy reference for experts, and a guidebook for those seeking an introduction to national security institutions in Canada."

Veronica M. Kitchen, associate professor of political science, University of Waterloo