After obtaining a heavily censored briefing note, CBC News informs us that it outlined the increasing vulnerability of Canada's energy, financial and telecommunications systems face from cyber-attackers. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) June 2009 memo states, "Compromises of computer and combinations networks of the Government of Canada, Canadian universities, private companies and individual customer networks have increased substantially." Government officials continue to work on the uprising issue but , as stated by Liberal public safety critic Mark Holland, “Canada is vulnerable to a catastrophic event involving its power grid or banking system.” Holland then continued to say, "Canada is without a plan and we have a government that has given us little more than words. So, rhetoric is cold comfort for those who are concerned." As other countries make progress and begin to defend against these potential attacks, Canada’s director of the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre, Ron Deibert had said, “Canada needs a coherent, comprehensive strategy on cyberspace, given how dependent Canadians are on telecommunications.” Knowing this we can see the elaborate steps that must be taken to ensure cyberspace safety. However, the clock is counting down as the threat of cyber attacks increase at an exponential rate.

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