Recent cyber-attacks show that we need to get on with Bill C-26

Canada needs to raise the baseline level of cybersecurity across the systems we rely on most before we find ourselves making laws in the middle of a national cybersecurity crisis.

Minister of Public Safety, Democratic Institutions and Intergovernmental Affairs Dominic Leblanc, pictured. Cybersecurity is a team sport, not solely the responsibility of any single stakeholder—government, the private sector, technical operators, civil society and Canadian citizens—but of all of them, writes Byron Holland. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BYRON HOLLAND

September 7, 2023

This April, against a backdrop of Canadian and Ukrainian flags, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood on stage at Toronto's Royal York Hotel alongside Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal. Trudeau reiterated Canada’s support for Ukraine, and told reporters about a new mili...

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