Reid Morden

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Reid Morden, CM (born June 17, 1941) was the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 1988-1992. From 1991-1994, Morden served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. He was made a Member of the Order of Canada in 1999.[1]

Education[]

Morden graduated from Dalhousie University in 1963 with a Bachelor of Laws. He later received an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Dalhousie.

Career[]

Morden started his career with the Canadian Department of External Affairs. His first posting was in Pakistan. From 1991-1994, Morden served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Morden was named director of CSIS in 1988, and served in that capacity for four years.[2] While there, he oversaw the destruction of security files for John Diefenbaker, Lester B. Pearson and Pierre Elliott Trudeau on 30 January 1989.[3]

Later he caused a stir by defending former director Ted Finn's erasing of 156 tapes of evidence before the Air India Inquiry.[4][5][6]

In addition, Morden has served as President of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited1994-1998, and worked in the private sector with Kroll and KPMG Forensic Inc 2000-.[7] In 2000 Morden received the Order of Canada.[8] In June 2005, Morden was appointed to assist the commission of inquiry dealing with the case of Maher Arar.

Today he runs the security analysis firm Reid Morden & Associates, while acting as Executive Director of the Volcker Inquiry into the United Nations' Oil-for-Food Programme. He is also a Director of the . Morden sits on the Board of Governors for Trent University, and is an advisor to the Schulich School of Business' MBA program. Morden is a Grand Officer of the Order of the Southern Cross.[9]

References[]

  1. ^ "Mr. John Reid Morden". The Governor General of Canada. 21 October 1999.
  2. ^ Arnold, Janice (23 November 2016). "MEDIA MONITOR MARKS 18 YEARS OF COUNTER-TERROR EFFORTS". Canadian Jewish News.
  3. ^ Bronskill, Jim (26 July 2019). "Secret spy file on Pierre Trudeau was almost spared from destruction: memo". Lethbridge News Now. The Canadian Press.
  4. ^ "OurTrent :: Trent connection to Air India Inquiry". Archived from the original on 2006-03-06. Retrieved 2006-02-21.
  5. ^ Maralek, Victor; Matas, Robert (11 June 2003). "Ex-CSIS watchdog scorns RCMP's Air-India accusations". The Globe and Mail Inc.
  6. ^ "Air-India Bombing Case - McLellan Passes Buck To Bob Rae". Weekly Voice. 30 April 2005.
  7. ^ "Canadian Defence & Foreign Affairs Institute - Fellows Biographies: Reid Morden". Archived from the original on 2006-06-14. Retrieved 2006-08-15.
  8. ^ Canada Gazette Part I, Vol. 134, No. 13 Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ "Canada Gazette Part I, Vol. 133, No. 22" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
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