The Canadian Armed Forces member arrested and charged with passing highly sensitive government secrets to a foreign entity this week is an intelligence operator whose job was to gather information for military decision making and operations.

And the tip that led to Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar being charged this week with leaking information came from a complaint within the Forces rather than from Canada’s allies, the military said Friday.

Colonel Eric Leblanc, deputy commander of the Canadian Forces Military Police Group, said in an interview the Forces “got an internal complaint in 2024.” He said it did not come from allies.

This is different from 2012, when another Canadian Forces intelligence staffer, Jeffrey Delisle, was charged with communicating secrets to a foreign e

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