Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Between 1973 and 1987, Judd worked in several positions within Canada's
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT), both in
Ottawa and outside of Canada. He spent two years (1975 to 1977) serving as second secretary at the
Canadian Embassy in
Caracas,
Venezuela. Between 1977 and 1981, he worked at the Personnel Operations Bureau of the Department of External Affairs. From 1981 to 1982, Judd worked as the Secretary of the Restrictive Trade Practices Enquiry on Competitiveness in the Canadian Petroleum Industry. Afterwards, between 1982 and 1983, Judd worked as a senior advisor to the Deputy Minister (for Reorganization) at the Department of External Affairs. Between 1983 and 1987 he was Counsellor and Congressional Liaison at the
Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C. Other roles in government Between 1987 and 1990, he was the senior departmental assistant in the Canadian
Office of the Secretary of State for External Affairs. Between 1991 and 1992, he served as chief of staff to the president of the Queen's
Privy Council for Canada and minister responsible for constitutional affairs. Between 1992 and 1994, he was the
assistant secretary to the
Cabinet for Foreign and Defence Policy in the Privy Council Office In September 1994, Judd was working on special assignment in the Deputy Minister's Office of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade until, in July 1995, he became assistant deputy minister corporate services in the department.
Department of Finance In November 1996, Judd was appointed G-7 Deputy and Assistant Deputy Minister, International Trade and Finance of the
Department of Finance.
National Defence In February 1998, he was named Deputy Minister of National Defence.
Treasury On May 13, 2002, Judd was appointed Secretary of the Treasury Board and Comptroller General of Canada. He later declared that the
Public Works Department, not the Prime Minister, was responsible for the mismanagement of funds investigated by the
Gomery Inquiry.
Director of CSIS (2004–2009) On November 29, 2004, Judd was appointed to the position of director of
Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), by Liberal Prime Minister
Paul Martin.
War on terrorism On March 8, 2005, Judd was asked by Canadian Senator
David Paul Smith about whether Canadian mosques were being monitored by CSIS, to which Judd replied that he was unaware of any such policy. Assistant Director
Dale Neufeld then interjected, and confirmed that CSIS was indeed monitoring Canadian
mosques, which it suspected of recruiting and funding
terrorism. Later that month, Judd addressed the
Senate of Canada and said that
Kassem Daher was a Canadian citizen, and member of
Usbat-al-Ansar. In August 2005, Judd announced that Canadian citizens were fighting as part of the
Iraqi insurgency, an announcement that was met with derision from the
Prime Minister's office. In October 2005, Judd said the
2003 Invasion of Iraq was creating "long-term problems" for other countries, including Canada. While facing criticism for CSIS's role in handling the case of
Mohamed Harkat and other Muslim-Canadians detained under
Security certificates in November 2005, he offered the
Members of Parliament the chance to "ride along with agents" as they conducted interrogations of others. In July 2006, he announced that several hundred Canadians were being investigated for "pro-
al-Qaeda sympathies" In August 2006, he referred to the concept of
racial profiling as "fundamentally stupid". On March 31, 2009, veteran CSIS lawyer and advisor
Geoffrey O'Brian told the Commons Committee on Public Safety that CSIS would use information obtained under torture. Testifying on the same committee on April 2, 2009, Jim Judd said O'Brian would be recanting his statement in a letter.
Leaked diplomatic cables On November 29, 2010, a
leaked U.S. diplomatic cable sent from the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa dated July 2, 2008 reported a meeting between Judd and US State Department official Eliot Cohen. In the meeting Jim Judd, then head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, tells Eliot Cohen that the Canadian spy agency was still "vigorously harassing" known sympathizers of Hezbollah in Canada. In the same cable the American officer quotes Jim Judd as he laments a soon to be released video of Canadian citizen
Omar Khadr being interrogated by CSIS's officers at American
Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Judd refers to video saying that it "would likely show three ... adults interrogating a kid who breaks down in tears. He adds the comment that the release of the video would trigger "knee-jerk anti-Americanism" and "paroxysms of moral outrage, a Canadian specialty," he says. In another instance, Jim Judd said Canadians and their courts had an "Alice in Wonderland" worldview and he "derided" Canadian court judgments that, as per his view, threaten foreign governments' intelligence-sharing with Canada. The cable goes on reporting Judd as having said that "These judgments posit that Canadian authorities cannot use information that 'may have been' derived from torture, and that any Canadian public official who conveys such information may be subject to criminal prosecution."
Views on China In testimony before the Senate Committee on National Security and Defence in April 2007, Judd appeared concerned about Chinese espionage activities. The alarm had been raised publicly in 2005 by
Chen Yonglin, a former Chinese diplomat who defected to Australia, insisting that China had 1,000 agents operating there. Chen also claimed that similar numbers of Chinese spies also surveil in Canada. As of April 2007, Judd had almost half of CSIS resources devoted to counter the Chinese. Since that time, the
Canada China Energy and Environment Forum has seen a vast increase in business associated with the
National Energy Administration of China. A framework agreement was signed in October 2013 by Alberta Energy Minister
Ken Hughes to give provincial officials "unprecedented access" to Chinese decision-makers, strengthening ties to "what we believe will become one of our key markets" for energy products. He resigned 8 months after the appointment of cancer specialist Professor
Arthur T. Porter to the Security Intelligence Review Committee which has the mandate to review the activities of Judd's operations or the operations of any future Director of CSIS. He was succeeded by
Richard Fadden. ==Sources==