Threat assessment and RCMP/CSIS co-operation : Évaluation de la menace et la coopération entre la GRC et le SCRS

RCMP/CSIS Co-operation 7 Introduction Kent Roach The Commission’s Research Program Shortly after the appointment of the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182, a decision was made by the Commissioner, commission counsel and the research directors to commission a number of research papers on matters relevant to the Commission’s broad mandate. [...] For example, the McDonald Commission of Inquiry that examined activities of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s (RCMP) activities and made recommendations that lead to the creation of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) in 1984 issued a number of research papers and monographs as part of its process.1 Other commissions of inquiry at both the federal and provincial levels have followe [...] The Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182 faced the challenge of a particularly broad mandate that spanned the issues of the adequacy of threat assessment of terrorism both in 1985 and today, co-operation between governmental 1 For example, see the research studies published by the McDonald Commission of Inquiry Concerning. [...] RCMP/CSIS Co-operation 9 Because of the importance of public and party participation in this Commission of Inquiry, a decision was made early on that the researchers retained by the Commission would, whenever possible, present and defend the results of their research in the Commission’s hearings. [...] The Research Studies in this Volume The research studies in the volume start with an attempt to understand both the nature of the threat of terrorism in 1985 when Air India Flight 182 was bombed killing 329 people and the contemporary threat environment.