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- To safeguard our nation's digital future, concerted efforts by the federal government are needed to strengthen cybersecurity defences, bolster resilience against emerging threats, and empower Canadians to protect themselves in an increasingly interconnected world.
- To safeguard our nation's digital future, concerted efforts by the federal government are needed to strengthen cybersecurity defences, bolster resilience against emerging threats, and empower Canadians to protect themselves in an increasingly interconnected world.
- Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s foreign interference inquiry has enlightened us on the failings of our security apparatus and its inability to engage constructively with Canadians.
- Justice Marie-Josée Hogue’s foreign interference inquiry has enlightened us on the failings of our security apparatus and its inability to engage constructively with Canadians.
- Recent incidents, such as the DDoS attacks against Canadian ports, have highlighted the vulnerability of Canada's critical infrastructure.
- Recent incidents, such as the DDoS attacks against Canadian ports, have highlighted the vulnerability of Canada's critical infrastructure.
- Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it's been tracked, and the steps it's taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the 'wrong issues.' Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.
- Wesley Wark says the government should have taken a more mature approach and outlined what it knows about Chinese interference, how it's been tracked, and the steps it's taking to prevent it. But he also said the focus has been on the 'wrong issues.' Wark says the threat of democratic interference by authoritarian countries like China and Russia are real and longstanding and he says the big dangers from foreign-state actor interference are two-fold.
- Some favour a formal, independent inquiry by an esteemed retired jurist into alleged Chinese interference in our last two federal elections but it, too, would hear the pertinent evidence in private. All these options could usefully recommend improvements to current spy craft, but we will never know how serious, or frivolous, the threats are that have everyone hyper-ventilating.
- Some favour a formal, independent inquiry by an esteemed retired jurist into alleged Chinese interference in our last two federal elections but it, too, would hear the pertinent evidence in private. All these options could usefully recommend improvements to current spy craft, but we will never know how serious, or frivolous, the threats are that have everyone hyper-ventilating.
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