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On CSIS from the very perky Facts Canada site:
"Most nations are concerned with both their internal and external security affairs. Canada is no exception. Since 1984 our country has been placing its security affairs in the hands of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service or, as it is commonly called, CSIS. CSIS was formed to handle these affairs in order that a dedicated group be awarded the mandate previously held by a branch of the RCMP. The RCMP, with a lot on its own plate, was found ill equipped to deal with national security concerns."
That would be the adorable way of saying that the MacDonald Commission of Inquiry into Certain Acts of the RCMP (and I don't make up all these expressions, my American friends) found that the RCMP's security branch were a bit too busy illegally infiltrating political parties, labour unions, and compiling security intelligence dossiers on tens of thousands of Canadian citizens.