The National Cyber Security Strategy, announced in the Liberals’ 2018 budget, spreads the $507.7 million over five years and across multiple departments and agencies with a hand in cyber defence.
“Cyber attacks are becoming more pervasive, increasingly sophisticated and ever more effective,” the budget document reads.
“Successful cyber attacks have the potential to expose the private information of Canadians, cost Canadian business millions of dollars, and potentially put Canada’s critical infrastructure at risk.”
The budget is light on the actual details of the strategy, but it does lay out who will get increased funding.
The Communications Security Establishment, the country’s electronic spy agency, will play a central role in the new strategy. The Liberals are planning to consolidate the federal government’s cyber defence expertise under one roof within the CSE.
The new Canadian Centre for Cyber Security will be a clearing house for cyber security advice, and will be open to Canadian citizens and private businesses. CSE will receive $155.2 million over the next five years to establish and operate the centre.
CSE will also have an expanded role in the government’s overall IT management, as part of a six-year, $2.2 billion joint initiative with Shared Services Canada – although $1.2 billion of that is repurposed money.
The coordination of the national strategy will remain with Public Safety Canada, which is committing $236.5 million over five years to coordinate the government’s effort.
The Liberals launched a national consultation on cyber security issues in 2016, with an eye to updating the 2010 strategy put in place by the previous Conservative government.
Under the new strategy, responsibility for investigating cyber crime will remain with the RCMP, who will receive $116 million over five years to create a new unit to coordinate those investigations.
In addition to the cyber security strategy, the Liberal budget proposed $225 million over four years, beginning in 2020, to “preserve” CSE’s ability to conduct foreign electronic spying.
The 2018 budget also sets aside funding for more traditional security issues. It sets aside $173.2 million for securing the U.S.-Canada border against irregular migration, which has seen spikes over the last year.
The funding will include short-term enforcement and security screening for asylum claimants, as well as support for the Immigration and Refugee Board to process those claims.
The Mounties will also get a boost to the tune of $80 million for policing operations this year, as well as $60.2 million over five years to improve radio systems in divisions in Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Ottawa.
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