The secret sessions follow a spate of terrorist attacks in England that underscore the international alliance's concerns about the threat of homegrown extremism.
The federal government broke its own privacy rules this spring when it expanded the Five Eyes intelligence network to automatically share 1.2 million confidential Canadian files a year.
Members of the 'Five Eyes' intelligence-sharing alliance will automatically provide data to one another that critics say could threaten refugees and others.
In an announcement that could forever affect history's account of the 2016 election, the FBI announced that it has been investigating Trump's potential ties to Russia since July.
Canada's secretive cyberspies have turned to the people who pat travellers down at the airport to bolster security at their new Ottawa headquarters amid heightened concern about sensitive leaks.
The government should be concerned about the publication of secret CIA files that describe its ability to break into computers, mobile phones and smart TVs, , says a former national security analyst.