François-Philippe Champagne at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On July 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.

July 25th, 2022 / 11:50 a.m.

Liberal

François-Philippe Champagne Liberal Saint-Maurice—Champlain, QC

I was saying earlier that Bill C‑26 will give the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry greater powers.

This will allow for something important, and experts will testify to this. This will amend Canada's Telecommunications Act by adding security as an objective. This is not currently part of the objectives.

So this is a step that has already been taken, and it was taken long before what we've experienced over the past few days. This will give the additional powers to the minister so that he can require telecommunications companies to be more robust and resilient in their networks.

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