The Government of Canada will continue to increase Canada’s cyber workforce through programs like Express Entry32, which allows skilled foreign workers to come to Canada and work in their fields of expertise. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security33 (Cyber Centre) provides the Government of Canada with a dedicated home for cyber expertise. The Cyber Centre’s Learning Hub34 has helped develop the Government’s cyber workforce skills while also helping to shape Canadian post-secondary institutions’ curricula to better meet the demands of the labour market. The Communications Security Establishment Canada35 (CSE) and the Cyber Centre work to encourage under-represented groups to pursue education and careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) through community outreach. Objective 2.3: Identify and Support Targeted Areas of Research to Meet Canadian Needs Home-grown cyber innovation makes Canada more secure. Canada is a world leader in emerging technologies such as quantum computing and artificial intelligence. As part of a global market, however, Canadians obtain many cyber security products from foreign vendors. To bolster Canada’s global competitiveness, cyber resilience, and economic security, the Government of Canada will work with other levels of government and academia to boost research and innovation in support of Canada’s cyber security industry. The Government of Canada will also continue to work with groups, like CANARIE36, that help secure Canada’s research and education ecosystems. The Government of Canada is taking steps to protect Canada’s research ecosystem by implementing the new Policy on Sensitive Technology Research and Affiliations of Concern37 that protects our research while ensuring that Canadian research remains open and internationally collaborative. In future, the work of Canada’s new Research Security Centre38 will guide the implementation of the National Security Guidelines for Research Partnerships39 in order to protect Canadian innovation, including in cyber technology. 32 33 34 35 36 37 https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry.html https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/education-community/learning-hub https://www.cse-cst.gc.ca/en https://www.canarie.ca/ https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/safeguarding-your-research/guidelines-and-tools-implement-research-security/sensitivetechnology-research-and-affiliations-concern/policy-sensitive-technology-research-and-affiliations-concern 38 https://www.canada.ca/en/services/defence/researchsecurity/about.html 39 https://science.gc.ca/site/science/en/safeguarding-your-research/guidelines-and-tools-implement-research-security/nationalsecurity-guidelines-research-partnerships 22 National Cyber Security Strategy