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More than three years after a military officer was found guilty of selling secrets to the Russians, Canadian Forces personnel and Defence Department public servants have yet to complete mandatory security awareness training.

All military personnel and DND public servants were to have taken the online course designed to boost security awareness, part of measures brought in after the arrest of Canadian intelligence officer Jeffrey Delisle, who sold information to the Russians.

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That training course was supposed to be completed by all military and civilian employees by June 2015.

But figures compiled in a newly released DND audit showed that only 65 per cent of personnel in Ottawa and Gatineau, Que., have completed the course. The audit did not provide any detail about military and civilian personnel in the rest of the country.

A request to the DND for up-to-date information yielded incomplete results. The department says it is no longer tracking separately any numbers related to personnel in Ottawa, the site of the military’s various headquarters.

But it acknowledged not all civilian or military staff have taken the security training, despite the deadline.

My full article is here at the National Post:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/dnd-doesnt-know-how-many-employees-took-mandatory-security-course-despite-2015-deadline