Even in the context of critical infrastructure development, such as telecoms, Canada can't go it alone. Indeed, for most services, Canada can't go it alone. As a result, one of the things the Citizen Lab has recommended is that Canada, along with like-minded friendly nations, figure out ways of doing information assurance collectively. That may mean that in the hardware space, one country looks at Samsung, another at Huawei, another at Ericsson. When it comes to services, such as Microsoft's challenges, again, a coordinated analysis by the NSA, the CSE, the GCHQ and other intelligence alliances is important to assess and identify these vulnerabilities.
On March 22nd, 2021. See this statement in context.