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Andrew Kirsch: I am a former CSIS intelligence officer. It would be nice if the PM took our security advice seriously
9 May 2024
Andrew Kirsch served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) for 10 years. His memoir “I Was Never Here: My True Canadian Spy Story of Coffees, Code Names, and Covert Operations” was a national bestseller. He is currently CEO of Kirsch Group, a security risk consulting firm based in Toronto. He is a public speaker on issues of cyber, physical and national security. He also ran for the Ontario PC Party in the 2018 Ontario provincial election in the riding of Toronto-St Paul’s.