Appendix B: Abbreviations
Special Report on the National Security and Intelligence Activities of Global Affairs Canada

ACCBP
Anti-Crime Capacity Building Program
ADM
assistant deputy minister
CAF
Canadian Armed Forces
CBSA
Canada Border Services Agency
CSE
Communications Security Establishment
CSIS
Canadian Security Intelligence Service
CTCBP
Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program
DDO
Deputy Director of Operations
DFATD
Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (legal name for GAC)
DMOC
Deputy Minister Operations Committee
DND
Department of National Defence
FCID
GAC Task Force on International Critical Incidents (which serves as the secretariat to support the Interdepartmental Task Force)
FPRA
foreign policy risk assessment
G7
Group of Seven, consisting of Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States and the European Union
GB
Group of Eight, consisting of the G7 plus Russia
GAC
Global Affairs Canada (applied name for DFATD)
IFM
International Security and Political Affairs Branch (of GAC)
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JCM
Joint Consultative Mechanism
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NSICOP
National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians
NSIRA
National Security and Intelligence Review Agency
OPCW
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
PCO
Privy Council Office
RCMP
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RFI
request for information (GAC document tracking system)
S&I
Security and Intelligence
SIGINT
signals intelligence
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Task Force
Interdepartmental Task Force
UN
United Nations
USS
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
WTRP
Weapons Threat Reduction Program