Toronto: Canadian authorities allowed the National Security Agency to spy in the country during the G8 and G20 summits in 2010, CBC News reported late on Wednesday, 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 don't mention precise targets of the US spying operation but say that plans were "closely coordinated with the Canadian partner".
The report that came out on Wednesday did not publish the documents.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Jason MacDonald, late on Wednesday said that, "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.
"Under the law, CSEC does not target Canadians anywhere or any person in Canada through its foreign intelligence activities," spokeswoman Lauri Sullivan, said. "CSEC cannot ask our international partners to act in a way that circumvents Canadian laws."
