Jim Judd

James "Jim" Judd (1947–) is a Canadian diplomat and intelligence agent. He is the current Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He was appointed to the position by Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004.

Early life

Judd was born in August 1947 in Montreal, Quebec. Before entering university, he lived in Germany and the Netherlands, and several places in Canada, including Edmonton, Fort Nelson, Whitehorse, Carleton Place and CFB Borden. He graduated from Carleton University where he received his Honours B.A. in Political Science and a Masters degree majoring in International affairs.

Career

Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade

Between 1973 and 1987, Judd worked in several positions within Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), both in Ottawa and outside of Canada.

He spent two years (1975 to 1977) serving as Second Secretary at the Canadian Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela.

Between 1977 and 1981, he worked at the Personnel Operations Bureau of the Department of External Affairs.

From 1981 to 1982, Judd worked as the Secretary of the Restrictive Trade Practices Enquiry on Competitiveness in the Canadian Petroleum Industry. Afterwards, between 1982 and 1983, Judd worked as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister (for Reorganization) at the Department of External Affairs.

Between 1983 and 1987 he was Counsellor and Congressional Liaison at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C..

Other roles in Government

Between 1987 and 1990, he was the Senior Departmental Assistant in the Canadian Office of the Secretary of State for External Affairs.

Between 1991 and 1992, he served as Chief of Staff to the President of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada and Minister Responsible for Constitutional Affairs.

Between 1992 and 1994, he was the Assistant Secretary to the Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy in the Privy Council Office

In September 1994, Judd was working on Special Assignment in the Deputy Minister’s Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade until, in July 1995, he became Assistant Deputy Minister Corporate Services in the department.

Department of Finance

In November 1996, Judd was appointed G-7 Deputy and Assistant Deputy Minister, International Trade and Finance of the Department of Finance.

National Defence

In February 1998, he was named Deputy Minister of National Defence.

Treasury

On May 13, 2002, Judd was appointed Secretary of the Treasury Board and Comptroller General of Canada. He later declared that the Public Works Department, not the Prime Minister, was responsible for the mismanagement of funds investigated by the Gomery Inquiry.

CSIS

On November 29, 2004, Judd was appointed to the position of director of Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), by Prime Minister Paul Martin.

War on Terrorism

On March 8th 2005, Jim Judd was asked by Canadian Senator David Paul Smith about whether Canadian mosques were being monitored by CSIS, to which Judd replied that he was unaware of any such policy. Assistant Director Dale Neufeld then interjected, and confirmed that CSIS was indeed monitoring Canadian mosques, which it suspected of recruiting and funding terrorism. [http://noii-van.resist.ca/csis_monitoring]

Later that month, Judd addressed the Canadian Senate and said that Kassem Daher was a Canadian citizen, and member of Usbat-al-Ansar.

In August 2005, Judd announced that Canadian citizens were fighting as part of the Iraqi insurgency, an announcement that was met with derision from the Prime Minister's office. [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/10/20/insurgency051020.html]

In October 2005, Judd said that the 2003 Invasion of Iraq was creating "long-term problems" for other countries, including Canada [http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/10/31/csis051031.html] . While facing criticism for CSIS's role in handling the case of Mohamed Harkat and other Muslim-Canadians detained under Security certificates in November 2005, he offered the Members of Parliament the chance to "ride along with agents" as they conducted interrogations of others.

In July 2006, he announced that several hundred Canadians were being investigated for "pro-al-Qaeda sympathies" [http://torontosun.com/News/Canada/2006/07/19/1691918-sun.html]

In September 2006, he referred to the concept of racial profiling as "fundamentally stupid", pointing to cases like Richard Reid and the 2006 Toronto terrorism case where the suspects were not Arabic. [ [http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/letters/story.html?id=461de6c6-e5be-47db-b288-bc80b5da730c An indictment of racial profiling ] ]

ources

* [http://www.csis-scrs.gc.ca/en/about_us/director.asp CSIS profile on Judd]
* [http://www.usask.ca/government_relations/UtoG/Federal/Treasury%20Board.pdf Bio from University of Saskatchewan]

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