Richard Brian Marcel Fadden was born on September 1951 and is a Canadian former civil servant who was the national security advisor to the prime minister of Canada and an associate secretary to the cabinet.
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Richard Fadden retired from that position on March 31,2016.
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Richard Fadden had previously served as the deputy minister for the Department of National Defence from 2013 to 2015.
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Richard Fadden was previously the deputy minister for Citizenship and Immigration Canada from 2006 to 2009.
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Richard Fadden spent his career as a civil servant, beginning in 1978 as a Foreign Service Officer in the Department of External Affairs.
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Richard Fadden moved to the Security and Intelligence Secretariat of the Privy Council Office in 1983.
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Richard Fadden served as Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from June 2009, when he replaced Jim Judd, until his abrupt resignation in mid-May 2013.
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Richard Fadden made headlines in June 2010 by announcing that foreign countries were both performing industrial esponiage against Canada, and trying to influence Canadian politicians.
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Richard Fadden went on to say that Cabinet Ministers in two provinces, and several municipal politicians, were influenced by a foreign government when making policy decisions.
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Richard Fadden was appointed National Security Adviser in early 2015 by Stephen Harper.
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Richard Fadden was replaced by Daniel Jean, who lacked experience in either national security or intelligence.
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Richard Fadden's concerns have since been borne out by a series of revelations, including a Financial Times investigation that cast light on "an internal document prepared by the overseas section of Beijing's United Front Works Department" that showed how China was influencing electoral politics in foreign countries.