Luc Portelance is the current President of the Canada Border Services Agency

Canada Border Services Agency

The Canada Border Services Agency is a federal law enforcement agency that is responsible for border enforcement, immigration enforcement and customs services....

, previously served as the Executive Vice-President of CBSA and Deputy Director of Operations for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service

Canadian Security Intelligence Service

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service is Canada's national intelligence service. It is responsible for collecting, analyzing, reporting and disseminating intelligence on threats to Canada's national security, and conducting operations, covert and overt, within Canada and abroad.Its...

 (CSIS) from 2007-2009, replacing Jack Hooper

Jack Hooper

Jack Hooper is the former deputy director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service who became well known mainly for his role in some of Canada’s most sensitive and controversial spy-service scandals, including CSIS’s involvement in the case of Maher Arar, a Canadian engineer father of two...

, who did not get along with Director Jim Judd

Jim Judd

James "Jim" Judd is a retired Canadian diplomat and senior civil servant. He served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service . He was appointed to the position by Liberal Prime Minister Paul Martin on November 29, 2004 and retired from the position on June 27, 2009, before the...

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Appearing at the first press conference regarding the 2006 Toronto terrorism case

2006 Toronto terrorism case

The 2006 Ontario terrorism case refers to the plotting of a series of attacks against targets in Southern Ontario, Canada, and the June 2, 2006, counter-terrorism raids in and around the Greater Toronto Area that resulted in the arrest of 18 people found to be Al-Qaeda members of an Islamic...

, Portelance was later quoted as stating "Terrorism is a dangerous ideology and a global phenomenon...Canada is not immune from this ideology."