Reg Whitaker joins Prism as a regular contributor

I would like to inform our readers that Reg Whitaker has joined the Prism family of respected contributors. I am sure you all know Mr. Whitaker and the excellent advisory role he played at the O’Connor Inquiry.  He is the author of many books and has extensive experience in National Security matters.

Reg Whitaker is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University, and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Victoria. He has published extensively about Canadian politics; security, intelligence, and politics of information issues. He is the author of a number of books, among them The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality, which has also appeared in French, Spanish, German, and Korean editions; Cold War Canada: the Making of a National Insecurity State; Double Standard: the Secret History of Canadian Immigration, and The Government Party: Organizing and Financing the Liberal Party of Canada, 1930-1958. He was an adviser to Justice Dennis O’Connor on the Maher Arar inquiry. He chaired an advisory panel on aviation security that reported to Parliament in 2006 and reported to the Air India inquiry on the aviation security aspects of the 1985 terrorist attack. He has recently co-authored a study on ‘Accountability in and for national security’ for the Institute for Research in Public Policy.