Canada’s Black Files

 

What the Canadian Government doesn’t want you to know.

Copyright © Alain Vollant 1998

Proofreading by Chris L'Étoile

 

Thought every governments and countries has their share of "Top-Secrets" or "Ultra-Confidential" files, the Canadian Black files are a recent creation going back from the aftermath of the Twilight War. At the time, the surviving Canadian Government was forced to make some controversial choices and some very questionable agreement in order to maintain a state of peace and order, relatively speaking, within its borders.

 

During that troubled period, and because every computers were none serviceable at the time, those "sensitive" information were kept inside a black painted filling cabinet. As time went on, The Black Files came to get a more or less "official" statue.

 

Today, The Canadian Black Files are code numbered as follow: Example:

 

2300-10-Can-1002

 

2300-10-Can-1002: represent the date when the file was opened.

 

2300-10-Can-1002: represent the number of years before the file can be disclosed to the general public. That number could go from 1 to 99 years; but could contain the following exceptions: A A - means that this files is currently open; A W - Means that this file must remind close for 101 years minus one day and W W - Means that this files cannot be disclosed prior 150 years and after it has been review by a special committee upon that moment.

 

2300-10-Can-1002: Represent the country that is directly affected by the information contained in this file.

 

2300-10-Can-1002: represent the type of operation this file contain (1- covert Operation. 2- Secret Deal/Agreement. 3- Non-Military Classified Research project. 4- Special Investigation of certain Personality. 5- Cover-up. 6- Sensitive Data. 7- Diplomatic Investigation. 8- Recovered Information. 9- Other Data that can be considerate as a Threat).

 

2300-10-Can-1002: Represent the number of reports this files contains.

 

So, this means that the File 2300-10-Can-1002 was a covert operation that happened in 2300 ad, and probably in Canada. That this Black File contains two reports and cannot be disclosed prior 2310.

 

NOTE ON DISCLOSURE: When the Canadian Government has to disclose a Black Files, it will usually do so by using the most discrete way possible in order to avoid any public unrest and, always including the complete background in which the Black Files was created.

 

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