OTTAWA—As a senior RCMP intelligence official faces charges of disclosing secret information, new figures reveal thousands of incidents last year in which federal agencies, including the national police force, mishandled sensitive documents. The agencies say no one lost their security clearance as a result of the 2019 lapses, which Schmale finds concerning. Is it documents left on a desk? At the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, security personnel collected the mishandled material in each of the 543 cases identified last year. Follow-up inspections are done for serious infractions, such as those involving a large number of protected documents.

Source: thestar February 02, 2020 11:03 UTC