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New cyber strategy must tackle chronic talent shortage

A renewed strategy will help ensure that government policy captures the full breadth of recent developments in cyberspace, from the emergence of cyber arms markets to the growing threat that state actors pose to our critical infrastructure.

The mandate letters of four senior cabinet ministers call on them to develop a new national cyber security strategy: from left, Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne, and Defence Minister Anita Anand. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
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