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SECURITY INTELLIGENCE REVIEW COMMITTEE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An agency of the Canadian government that oversees the activities of the Criminal Intelligence Services of Canada and has the power to intrude on the privacy of suspected terrorists or spies
Synonyms:
Security Intelligence Review Committee; SIRC
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Security Intelligence Review Committee" is a kind of...):
international intelligence agency (an intelligence agency outside the United States)
Domain region:
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)