Canadian authorities allowed the National Security Agency to spy in the country during the G8 and G20 summits in Ontario in 2010, CBC News reported, citing documents shared by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The national broadcaster’s website said the documents show that the NSA used the US Embassy in Ottawa as a command post for a nearly weeklong spying operation while President Barack Obama and other foreign leaders were in Canada in June 2010.
CBC reported that the documents do not mention precise targets of the US spying operation but say that plans were “closely coordinated with the Canadian partner.”
The report on Wednesday did not publish the documents. A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Jason MacDonald, said, “We do not comment on operational matters related to national security.”
A spokeswoman for Canada’s equivalent of the NSA, the Communications Security Establishment Canada, said they could not comment on the operations of Canada or its allies.