OTTAWA — When the latest results of the biennial Public Service Employment Survey arrived on Daniel Rogers’ desk earlier this year, the new head of Canada’s intelligence agency was angry.

No matter how he looked at them, the results of the 2024 survey for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) — and particularly attitudes towards senior management — were bleak.

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The new director noted that trust in senior leadership is low, the amount of red tape is seen as too high and less than half of surveyed employees would recommend working at CSIS.

“I’ll be candid about what I’ve seen: the results are disappointing and unacceptable,” Rogers wrote to staff in a June 23 memo obtained by National Post upon request to CSIS.

“There is no way to slice this data in a way t

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