DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS UNPROTECTED

About half of Canada’s diplomatic corps works in places where there’s danger from terrorism, espionage or armed conflict. Spot-checks of Canada’s missions abroad found all of their security plans are lacking in some way, from outdated or nonexistent threat assessments to missing or broken equipment. Physical security, such as vehicle barriers, video surveillance, alarms and X-ray machines were missing or not working properly. At one of place, the perimeter was determined in 2011 to have a “critical vulnerability,” but a site visit this year found this problem hadn’t been fixed.