This episode on Canadian Intelligence and Covid-19 features Wesley Wark
Wesley is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Has published extensively in the field of intelligence studies
He served two terms on the prime minister of Canada’s Advisory Council on National Security (2005–2009)
He sat on the Advisory Committee to the President of the Canada Border Services Agency from 2006 to 2010
He is the co-editor (with Christopher Andrew and Richard J. Aldrich) of Secret Intelligence: A Reader, second edition (Routledge, 2019), now in its second edition There were some technical issues that mean that the audio in the final third of this interview is at a lower volume that the earlier parts. Apologies for this.
The Covid-19 and Democracy Podcast is an output of The Covid-19 and Democracy Project, which is based at Kingston University, London.
The podcast aims to capture in real-time the fervent intellectual debate at the intersections between the Covid-19 pandemic and democratic politics and policy.
Principle Investigator and podcast Presenter and Producer: Pete Finn ([email protected])
Original music by Sovereign Heights