support, a draft resolution on cybercrime, stressing the importance of technical assistance in this context. The resolution was adopted by consensus and referred to the United Nations’ General Assembly. C) Capacity building: Since 2015, Canada has disbursed over $9.1M to cyber security capacity building, primarily in the Americas. Programming of this nature falls under the mandate of Global Affairs’ ACCBP. Canada’s current international cyber security programming is provided through several international partners, including the OAS, INTERPOL, and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). By partnering with the OAS on cyber capacity building projects, Canada seeks to encourage States to ratify the Budapest Convention by helping them develop their own national cyber strategies in order to meet the convention’s standards for ratification. These projects also help to establish or improve CSIRTs throughout the Americas. With Canadian funding, the OAS has been able to launch the CSIRTAmericas.org website, which functions as a centralized platform for all CSIRTs to share information and develop coordinated responses to cybercrime and threats to cyber security. D) At the June 2018 Charlevoix Summit, G7 Leaders announced the creation of the Rapid Response Mechanism (RRM). The RRM is mandated to coordinate G7 efforts to identify and respond to diverse and evolving threats to our democracies, including through information sharing and analysis, and identifying opportunities for coordinated responses. The RRM is meant to address a broad spectrum of threats to democracy. The illustrative examples identified by Ministers during their April 2018 Toronto meeting were grouped under three headings: 1) Institutions and Processes; 2) Disinformation and Media; and 3) Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights. The RRM consists of Focal Points from G7 members, together with the EU, responsible for delivering on the Charlevoix commitment. Each Focal Point is positioned to leverage its own national or institutional structures and processes. Canada coordinates the RRM on an ongoing basis. To operationalise the RRM and ensure its smooth functioning, the RRM Coordination Unit was stood-up at Global Affairs Canada. While the RRM is a G7 entity, the RRM also engages with other likeminded countries and interlocutors who share our interest and expertise in protecting democracy from foreign threats. Recently, Australia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and New Zealand were included in the RRM information sharing network. This network also includes over 100 experts representing think tanks, academic institutions and multilateral organizations. E) Canada’s Criminal Code contains a number of offences and investigative tools that are relevant to the criminal misuse of the Internet, including for terrorist purposes. The Criminal Code contains a number of terrorism offences, which are largely designed to prevent the carrying out of a terrorist activity. For example, the Criminal Code includes an offence of knowingly participating in or contributing to any activity of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of any terrorist group to facilitate or carry out a terrorist activity (s 83.18 of the Criminal Code). Sections 22 and 464 of the Criminal Code are general counselling offences that can be applied to the counselling of terrorism offences as well as other criminal offences. Counselling is defined to include soliciting, procuring or inciting (subsection 22(3) of the Criminal Code). As well, there is the specific terrorism offence in section 83.221 of the Criminal Code of counselling another person to commit a terrorism offence without identifying a specific terrorism offence. The offence may be committed whether or not a terrorism offence is committed by the person who is counselled. The definitions of “terrorist activity” and “terrorism offence” in the Criminal Code expressly include counselling. In addition, section 320.1 of the Criminal Code allows a judge to order to deletion of hate propaganda that is stored on and made available to the public though a computer system that is within the jurisdiction of the court. Also, section 83.223 of the Criminal Code allows a judge to order to deletion of terrorist propaganda that is stored on and made available to the public though a computer system that is within the jurisdiction of the court. Both “hate propaganda” and “terrorist propaganda” are defined terms in the Criminal Code (subsections 320(8) and 83.222(8)). Similar authorities for the removal of offensive content from the Internet are available in the Criminal Code in relation to child pornography and other prohibited sexual content such as voyeuristic recordings in section.164.1 and in relation to hate propaganda in section 320.1, as noted above. Canada is also able to cooperate with other States, and has a statutory framework specifically in relation to this cooperation (Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters Act).