Professor Craig Forcese has been named Vice-Chair of the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA), an independent agency of the Canadian government that works to ensure that Canada’s national security agencies are complying with the law and that their actions are reasonable and necessary.
Professor Forcese had previously been appointed as a member of the NSIRA in 2019, for a five-year term. He will occupy the position of Vice-Chair for the remainder of his term, which ends in 2024.
Professor Forcese is the co-author, with Leah West, of National Security Law (Irwin Law, 2021 2d Ed). He is also the co-author, with Kent Roach, of False Security: The Radicalization of Canadian Anti-terrorism (Irwin Law, 2015), which offers an assessment of Canada's then-anti-terror law and policy.
Read the official press release from the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada.
