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The man in full disguise — white face mask, dark wig and altered voice — starts off calmly. Gradually, his pleas become more urgent.

“They want to remove me from this country — after everything I did?” he says into the camera.

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“Isn’t that a shame? Isn’t that a shame?”

The Halifax, N.S., man behind the ten-minute video, which was sent to reporters and posted on YouTube this past week, claims to be a 34-year-old Arab-Israeli citizen who spent four years working as an undercover counterterrorism “operative” for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the nation’s spy agency.

That’s the reason for the disguise.

The reason for his anger? He claims the government abruptly ended its relationship with him three years ago and then reneged on a promise to help him get permanent resident status in return for his services.

He says he’s speaking out now because he’s been slapped with a removal order that the Canada Border Services Agency will execute this Sunday.