NSA’s Canadian counterpart runs massive domestic spying program
Keith Jones, wsws.org | 15 June 2013

. . . In the course of his efforts to cover-up the scope and purpose of CSEC’s metadata mining, MacKay did make one revealing admission. In response to a question about the mass surveillance of Canadians’ communications, MacKay told Parliament, “I have a heads-up for the member … This is something that has been happening for years.” . . .

This article mentions how the “Five Eyes” was formed in the late 1940s.