Lefebvre, Stéphane
Currently Visiting Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences within the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Instructor, Canadian Academy of Intelligence Analysis, Privy Council Office, Government of Canada (casual employee). Retired from government employment. Outstanding Achievement Award from the Canadian Association of Professional Intelligence Analysts (CAPIA)
Awards:
Best Student Paper Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) Intelligence Studies Section
Carleton University Graduate Studies Scholarship
Leadership Award from Defence R&D Canada Centre for Operational Research & Analysis
Solicitor General Canada Certificate for valued contribution to the VIII Francophonie Summit
Prime Minister of Canada’s Certificate of Thanks for valued contributin to the APEC '97 Economic Leaders Meeting
The Commander Land Force Central Area Commendation, for outstanding motivation, dedication and service
Marcel Cadieux Fellowship from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
2025 1-4955-1332-7Awards:
Best Student Paper Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) Intelligence Studies Section
Carleton University Graduate Studies Scholarship
Leadership Award from Defence R&D Canada Centre for Operational Research & Analysis
Solicitor General Canada Certificate for valued contribution to the VIII Francophonie Summit
Prime Minister of Canada’s Certificate of Thanks for valued contributin to the APEC '97 Economic Leaders Meeting
The Commander Land Force Central Area Commendation, for outstanding motivation, dedication and service
Marcel Cadieux Fellowship from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade
This book examines the rhetorical devices that secret keepers in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States use to justify the non-disclosure of state secrets. It also examines the manner in which judges in these three countries write and speak about state secrets. By embracing the rhetorical devices used by secret keepers and materializing them in reported decisions, judges add legitimacy to the discourse of secret keepers and directly assist in its reproduction and distribution. Taken together, the discourse of the state and the discourse of law on state secrecy sets up the dominant interpretive frames with which any public engagement, whether supportive or critical, must engage. While the persuasive social effect and perceived legitimacy of this combined discourse may ebb and flow, it appears enduring and difficult to challenge despite the existence of counter-discourses and concessions such as the adoption of access to information legislation. This thesis seeks to understand how state secrecy discourse becomes or appears preeminent, and how it reproduces itself, as a first step in formulating a fuller critique of this discourse.
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