This is the reason. One of my mentors was part of this effort; the Canadians were riddled with Soviet agents. EDIT: downvoted for facts. Here's a reference: B

This is the reason. One of my mentors was part of this effort; the Canadians were riddled with Soviet agents. EDIT: downvoted for facts. Here's a reference: But until then his assignment was to become Soboloff so convincingly that nobody would ever suspect he was a Soviet spy. Eventually, he was given responsibility for managing five recruited agents, including a Communist Party of Canada member from Toronto who worked for the company developing the Avro Arrow and provided its engineering schematics to the KGB. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-book-tells-story-of-russian-illegal-sent-to-canada-and-betrayed https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/the-spy-named-gideon-bo...