In a dramatically shifting landscape, it’s time to highlight Canada’s strengths in security and defence
We have smart business leaders, valuable resources, advanced technological and security capacity, and experience in the fields of defence and security.
Asking the right questions to safeguard our sovereignty
The top issue in the next election will surely be the economy, but the second matter of public discourse should be protecting our national sovereignty.
Canada faces a cybersecurity crisis with critical infrastructure at risk
From energy grids to health-care systems, our nation’s most essential assets are being targeted by an ever-evolving array of sophisticated threats from both state and non-state actors.
Parties appear ‘unwilling’ to ‘manage their own house’ amid foreign interference in nominations: national security expert
Former Liberal minister Sheila Copps says a court challenge or grassroots push could force change, while former Conservative staffer Fred DeLorey says parties should set their own rules.
Canada can’t afford to squander chance for rare Indo-Pacific role with AUKUS, say analysts
Although AUKUS is holding consultations with Canada to find areas to collaborate on advanced technology information sharing, it has yet to signal if it will welcome new members.
Feds have ‘duty to protect and warn’ parliamentarians from threats ‘in any form,’ says NDP MP Jenny Kwan
Former CSIS analyst Stephanie Carvin says government, Parliament, and political parties share the responsibility to protect democracy from cyber threats.
Virani’s Online Harms Act takes centre stage
Plus, Trudeau could face the Indian prime minister at the United Nations in New York.
‘So damn offensive’: NSICOP and Hogue findings on media raise serious concern about covert targeting of Canadian journalists
If foreign powers can convince mainstream Canadian media to report a message they wish to advance ‘it’s quite dangerous’ because it lends ‘credibility to the entire narrative,’ said MLI’s Marcus Kolga.
Political leaders should not put interests of parties over interests of the country
The House may be adjourned for the summer, but the sensational claims that some parliamentarians have been ‘semi-witting or witting’ players with foreign states to interfere in our politics will continue to hang over this Parliament.
‘A permissive environment’: four security gaps flagged by NSICOP where Ottawa has been slow to act
Former CSIS executive Dan Stanton says the government is ‘playing catch up’ on foreign interference, partly because the ‘subtlety’ of the threat has made it too easy to ignore the issue.
