Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Agency overview
Formed	June 21, 1984; 39 years ago (1984-06-21)
Preceding agency	RCMP Security Service
Jurisdiction	Government of Canada
Headquarters	Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 45°26′15″N 75°36′50″W / 45.4374°N 75.6139°W / 45.4374; -75.6139
Motto	A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice.
Employees	3,200+ (2020)[1]
Annual budget	$696.5 million (2023–24)[2]
Minister responsible	Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Public Safety
Agency executive	David Vigneault, Director
Parent department	Public Safety Canada
Website	www.canada.ca/en/security-intelligence-service.html

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS, /ˈsiːsɪs/; French: Service canadien du renseignement de sécurité, SCRS) is a foreign intelligence service and security agency of the federal government of Canada. It is responsible for gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world and conducting covert action within Canada and abroad.^[3] CSIS reports to the Minister of Public Safety, and is subject to review by the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency.^[4]

The CSIS has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on intelligence gathering overseas.^[5] The agency is led by a director, the ninth and current being David Vigneault, who assumed the role on June 19, 2017.^[6]