In a national crisis, Canadians expect the CAF, EMS, and first responders to do what they are trained to do: protect the country. However, Canada has far more infrastructure to safeguard than there are professionals to protect it.
Northern Canada depends almost entirely on a handful of satellite providers. Satellites are vulnerable to jamming, cyberattacks, congestion, and foreign interference.
The dependency of finance on telecoms is now unavoidable, and the major vulnerability we have forgotten about is sovereignty.
Bill C-8 establishes a protection regime for federally regulated sectors, and should be treated as a generational opportunity to replace chalk lines with mathematics.