Canadian Spy: Project Ace (Cameron Ortis)

Insider threats and espionage

On 12 September 2019, Cameron Ortis, Director General of the RCMP’s National Intelligence Co-Ordination Centre, was arrested in Ottawa, Ontario and charged the following day. The arrest shocked the Canadian intelligence community. The investigation (code-named Project Ace) and prosecution of Ortis is ongoing and much of the material is subject to a publ…