What do recent changes in the United States’s strategic posture mean for the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance?

Over the past several months, allies within the Five Eyes have flagged an alarming level of polarization within the U.S. intelligence community. While the alliance has faced challenges before, new difficulties regarding intelligence-sharing dynamics, as well as domestic politics, and bilateral relationships between individual partners have raised concerns.

Today, we meet with Vincent Rigby, former national security advisor to the Prime Minister; Dan Stanton, former CSIS intelligence officer and current Director of the National Security Program at the University of Ottawa; and Artur Wilczynski, Senior Strategy Advisor at Samuel Associates, to discuss the challenges Canada faces amidst these shifts. Although the Five Eyes will likely remain the cornerstone of Canada’s contribution to global security through intelligence, Canada benefits from considering opportunities to diversify relations with new regional alliances and partnership blocs.

With a new government in Ottawa, policymakers must increase the capabilities of the Privy Council Office and other relevant areas of the national security apparatus, as well as transparency surrounding it to Canadians. Canada must prioritize its own strategic autonomy and national interests in an increasingly tumultuous international system.

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