In the weeks and months that followed, governments expanded airport screening, and new province-wide offices with expanded mandates. New money, powers and institutions flowed to the RCMP, CSIS, the Canada Border Services Agency and other parts of the federal apparatus. Anne McLellan, Canada’s first minister of public safety and emergency preparedness from 2003 to 2006, said the post-9/11 challenge was to build an architecture that had been missing pieces — and, above all, to get agencies to cooperate in exchanges of crucial data.
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