Policy areas · Defence & Foreign Affairs
National security
Clarion tracks National security across Canada's legislative record — the bills tagged to it, the House and legislature debates that mention it, the government media around it, and the lobbying filed on it. Every number is a deterministic count cited to the official record. A policy grouping, never a position.
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What's moving here
All-time counts of records matching this area's curated bilingual anchors.
- Debates
- 760
- 465 in the last 90 days
- Government media
- 204
- 173 in the last 90 days
- Lobbying filings
- 4,091
- 466 in the last 90 days
Recent records
The most recent debates, government media, and lobbying filings matching this area.
Media2026-08-23
Commons committee to probe security screening after NATO espionage arrest
westernstandard
Official record ↗Media2026-08-22
COMMENTARY: Absence of criminal charges does not prove innocence
saltwire
Official record ↗Media2026-08-21
2 organizers of Hong Kong's Tiananmen vigils convicted in national security case
cambridgetoday
Official record ↗Lobbying2026-08-07
Base Camp Connect
Defence · Government Procurement · Industry
Lobbying2026-08-06
Emergent BioSolutions Canada Inc.
Defence · Government Procurement · Science and Technology
Lobbying2026-07-31
Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine
Defence · Health · Industry
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Lobbying2026-07-31
Marshall Land Systems Ltd.
Defence · Government Procurement · Industry
Debate2026-06-18
Hon. Colin Deacon
Honourable senators, I would like to thank Senator Duncan for her thoughtful intervention and her service as both an elected and a non-elected parliamentarian.…
Official record ↗Debate2026-06-18
Hon. Claude Carignan
Honourable senators, I wasn’t expecting to deliver my speech following a quote from the Premier of Alberta, approved by Senator Gignac. Colleagues, I rise toda…
Official record ↗Debate2026-06-18
House debate
Hon. Pat Duncan moved third reading of Bill C-25, An Act to amend the Canada Elections Act and to enact An Act to change the names of certain electoral district…
Official record ↗Debate2026-06-18
Hon. Pierre J. Dalphond
Honourable senators, at this time last year, I asked you to take a few minutes to think about Jimmy Lai, a champion of democracy and freedom of the press in Hon…
Official record ↗Debate2026-06-18
Doug Ettinger
Those are great questions. I'll try to answer all of them in a row. First of all, we have 80 postal inspectors across Canada. They're highly trained, but most…
Official record ↗
What's counted
Bills, debates, and government media are counted nationally. Lobbying reflects the public registries Clarion ingests: British Columbia and Canada (Federal) and City of Toronto — federal, provincial, and municipal coverage each reflects what has been ingested to date.
Every count is a deterministic tally of real records matching curated anchors — a way to group activity by policy area, not a measure of support, opposition, or outcome. Bills are grouped by subject, never by stance.
Most recent tracked activity: 2026-08-23.
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