attack against the Jewish community<\/a>.<\/p>\nViolent extremists are motivated by an often personalized set of beliefs, said Rogers,\u00a0including xenophobia, accelerationism, nihilism, anti-Semitism, misogyny, extreme interpretations of religion, and more.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
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CSIS director says \u2018nearly 1 in 10 terrorism investigations\u2019 involves a minor<\/p>\n
CSIS director Dan Rogers addressed Canadians for the first time in an Ottawa news conference to outline present threats to national security. Rogers highlighted an increased number of radicalized young Canadians are being investigated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey find inspiration and motivation in the events and trends that polarize society or cause them to lose hope for the future,\u201d said Rogers.\u00a0 And, they easily access and amplify content online that radicalizes them and reinforces their view that violence is justified to achieve their extremist goals.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, he said, only small number of youth or adults with extreme views resort to violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut when they do, the consequences are devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The CSIS director said\u00a0 since 2014, there have been 20 violent extremist attacks in Canada resulting in 29 deaths, and at least 60 victims, and credited his employees and law enforcement for stopping more.<\/p>\n
\u201cEroding social cohesion, increasing polarization, and significant global events provide fertile ground for radicalization and many who turn to violence radicalize exclusively online \u2014 often without direction from others,\u201d said Rogers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey use technology to do so secretly and anonymously, seriously challenging the ability of our investigators to keep pace and to identify and prevent acts of violence. \u201c<\/p>\n
Rogers added societal support for youth can help curb radicalization early and prevent it.<\/p>\n
China, Russia continue to target Canada: Rogers <\/p>\n
The speech also touched on the foreign interference and espionage, noting both China and Russia are interested in what goes on in Canada’s Arctic. <\/p>\n
China, said Rogers, is seeking an economic foothold in the region, while Russia’s Arctic posture “remains unpredictable and aggressive.” <\/p>\n
China also continues to target Canada for classified and sensitive information. <\/p>\n
“Chinese spies have tried to recruit Canadians with access to government plans, intentions, information, and military expertise, through social media and online job platforms,” he said. <\/p>\n
CSIS has warned about the risk of Chinese foreign interference for years now. The latest comments\u00a0from the intelligence agency comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney appears determined to repair relations with Beijing.<\/p>\n
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Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping make their way to their seats after shaking hands at the start of a meeting in Gyeongju, Friday, Oct. 31, 2025. (Adrian Wyld\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n
Carney held a bilateral meeting with\u00a0Chinese President Xi Jinping\u00a0on the sidelines\u00a0of the\u00a0Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation\u00a0summit last month, marking the first formal leader-to-leader contact between the two nations since 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked what conversations CSIS is having with Carney about China, Rogers said the agency’s role is “unchanged.”<\/p>\n
“We provide the government with intelligence and advice on national security threats. That has not stopped, it continues very actively,” he said.<\/p>\n
“I would say that as the shifting nature of relationships between Canada and China, or Canada and any other country evolve, we’re gonna have to evolve our operations to make sure that the right intelligence gets to the government.” <\/p>\n
Canadians asked to be ‘eyes wide open’ on data storage <\/p>\n
He also raised the issue of data storage, noting vast amounts of Canadians\u2019 data are increasingly being held outside of Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“This arms states who may choose to act against Canada\u2019s interests with new ways to weaponize data and information,” he said.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
Asked to elaborate during the media questions\u00a0and answer\u00a0period, he said the government\u00a0may need to consider policy options which is “outside of CSIS’s lane.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The fix will be complicated,” he said. “When we’ve spoken publicly before about certain types of data, it’s to be able to make sure that Canadians are eyes wide open on where they’re putting their data and what kind of platforms and who that data is\u00a0 under\u00a0control of.”\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The former CSIS director, David Vigneault , was vocal in his concerns about TikTok, saying “there is a very clear strategy on the part of the government of China” to collect personal information. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s Rogers\u2019s first speech since he took helm of the spy agency late last year. His predecessor started the tradition during his tenure.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy intent is not to alarm. I want to reassure Canadians that CSIS, and the rest of Canada\u2019s security and intelligence community, is here and working tirelessly in their best interests,\u201d said Rogers.<\/p>\n
\u201cCSIS will continue to prioritize deliberately and ruthlessly, and become comfortable with an extraordinary pace of change.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before becoming the CSIS director, he served as the deputy national security and intelligence adviser to the prime minister and spent a decade before that working at the Communications Security Establishment, Canada’s foreign signals intelligence agency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of Canada\u2019s spy agency is warning about a \u201cworrying\u201d number of young people becoming radicalized.\u00a0 In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":281171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-281170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}