{"id":14041,"date":"2026-01-09T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.nsira-ossnr.gc.ca\/investigations\/investigation-summaries\/allegations-against-csis-for-racial-profiling-interrogation-and-harassment-information-sharing-with-foreign-agencies-travel-difficulties-and-citizenship-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T15:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T20:10:10","slug":"allegations-against-csis-for-racial-profiling-interrogation-and-harassment-information-sharing-with-foreign-agencies-travel-difficulties-and-citizenship-issues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nsira-ossnr.gc.ca\/en\/investigations\/investigation-summaries\/allegations-against-csis-for-racial-profiling-interrogation-and-harassment-information-sharing-with-foreign-agencies-travel-difficulties-and-citizenship-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations against CSIS for racial profiling, interrogation and harassment, information sharing with foreign agencies, travel difficulties, and citizenship issues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"gm36df47f\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4 section-gm36df47f gutentor-module gutentor-advanced-columns\"><div class=\"grid-container\"><div class=\"grid-row\">\n<div id=\"col-gmb4d9f1\" class=\"wp-block-gutentor-m4-col col-gmb4d9f1 gutentor-single-column  grid-lg-12 grid-md-12 grid-12\"><div id=\"section-gmb4d9f1\" class=\"section-gmb4d9f1 gutentor-col-wrap\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allegations against CSIS for racial profiling, interrogation and harassment, information sharing with foreign agencies, travel difficulties, and citizenship issues <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<!--  \n * Locate code in WPCode Snippets - title:  Investigations Summaries - NSIRA number from tags\n * Shortcode: [nsira_files]\n * Description: Extracts tags following the pattern '00-00' or '00-00-00' \n * and displays them with the \"NSIRA file:\" label.\n-->\n\r\n    <style>\r\n        .nsira-file-inline {\r\n            margin: 15px 0;\r\n            font-family: inherit; \/* Uses your theme's existing font *\/\r\n            line-height: 1.6;\r\n        }\r\n        .nsira-file-label {\r\n            font-weight: 700;    \/* Bold \"NSIRA file:\" *\/\r\n            color: #333;\r\n            display: block;      \/* Label stays on its own line *\/\r\n            margin-bottom: 2px;\r\n        }\r\n        .nsira-file-data {\r\n            color: #000;\r\n            display: block;      \/* Numbers appear on the line below the label *\/\r\n        }\r\n    <\/style>\r\n\r\n    <div class=\"nsira-file-inline\">\r\n        <span class=\"nsira-file-label\">NSIRA file:<\/span>\r\n        <span class=\"nsira-file-data\">07-403-05<\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n\r\n    \n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Complainant alleged that CSIS had been racially profiling them; that CSIS agents harassed and interrogated them on multiple occasions; that CSIS shared information about them with foreign countries, leading to them having travel difficulties; that CSIS was responsible for their travel difficulties; and that CSIS put their citizenship application on hold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">SIRC took&nbsp;jurisdiction&nbsp;of this complaint in 2018, and when NSIRA came into force in 2019, this investigation was&nbsp;deemed&nbsp;to be continued before NSIRA.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the investigative report, NSIRA provided clarity on the standard of review in section\u202f16 complaints \u2014 namely, that NSIRA is charged with making findings and recommendations with respect to legality, reasonableness, and necessity in the exercise of CSIS\u2019s powers. In gauging reasonableness and necessity, the Member adopted an objective standard: would a reasonable person charged with exercising CSIS\u2019s mandates and apprised fully of the facts, as were available to CSIS, conclude that CSIS\u2019s exercise of its powers was necessary and proportional?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the facts of this investigation, NSIRA found that the allegations were unsubstantiated, but made several recommendations. The recommendations addressed observations concerning how CSIS manages the aftermath of section\u202f12 investigations and the circumstances in which CSIS should retract or correct information that it shared with foreign agencies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":7790,"menu_order":17,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-nsira-subpages.php","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[151,69,77],"class_list":["post-14041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-07-403-05","tag-69","tag-csis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Allegations against CSIS for racial profiling, interrogation and harassment, information sharing with foreign agencies, travel difficulties, and citizenship issues - 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