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In the company of intelligence

"There's never been a debate in Canada that I am aware of on running an intelligence company out of the Canadian Forces."

--NDP defence critic Dawn Black.

What Colby said. For the record, last time I looked there were 4 military intelligence companies in the Canadian Forces: 2 (Toronto), 3 (Halifax), 4 (Montreal), and 6 (Western Canada). All 4 have been pushing a steady stream of reservists overseas for the Afghanistan mission, as they did for other missions before.

Perhaps the reason that Ms. Black doesn't recall a debate being held on the establishment of organizations specifically called "intelligence companies" was because that momentous event occurred in 1948. Obviously, of course, there was a Canadian Intelligence Corps long before that, though... as Romeo Sabourin or Frank Pickersgill could have told her, if they had not, unfortunately, been executed in Buchenwald.