CSIS as an institution acting against the interests of an entrenched governing party/oligarch bloc. Particularly if it leads to a change in leadership and they do it again.
Yes, it's a high bar. Intelligence agencies have a lot to make up for.
Yes, it's a high bar. Intelligence agencies have a lot to make up for.
It's of course possible that they're playing nice because the government isn't encroaching on the guarantees in the charter of rights, and I hope that's the case, but it's not evidence of anything that they're playing nice.
Personally, seeing them operate equally well under multiple generations of opposing political parties in one of the most free countries on earth for 40 years, PLUS having no track record of misinformation, is more than enough reason to trust them.