No single institution or segment of society can address the challenges posed by cyber threats alone. As the Government of Canada, we have had success in partnering with industry and other levels of government to share information, respond to cyber incidents and to launch Canadian cyber capabilities. We will deepen those connections and do more. The Government of Canada will lead an unprecedented level of public-private partnering on cyber issues to better tap into the expertise and capabilities of stakeholders. We will develop action plans to identify and address barriers to collaboration between government and other segments of society including international partners, build partnerships to leverage our collective capacity to respond to cyber threats, and guide our international engagement to promote norms-based behaviour in cyberspace. Objective 1.1: Forge Whole-of-Society Partnerships National leadership is key to a unified, holistic, and strategic approach to cyber security. The Government of Canada should not build its cyber security action plans alone. The Government of Canada will bring the topic of cyber security to the forefront of engagements with provinces and territories, and Indigenous communities to better represent cyber security needs. For instance, Canada’s critical infrastructure—primarily owned by the private sector—is spread across a vast but unevenly populated country. Small and remote communities, including northern populations and Indigenous communities, must be protected to the same extent as those in major urban centres. As part of the Government of Canada’s shift toward whole-of-society partnership, Public Safety Canada7 (PS) and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security8 (Cyber Centre) will establish the Canadian Cyber Defence Collective (CCDC). The CCDC will serve as a national multi-stakeholder engagement body to advance Canada’s cyber resilience through direct public-private partnership on national-level cyber security challenges, policy priorities, and defence efforts. The Government of Canada will actively leverage the CCDC to regularly engage stakeholders in the development of action plans to ensure the most current insights and experiences are informing future policy and program action. 7 8 https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/index-en.aspx https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en 14 National Cyber Security Strategy