Certainly the government's 2023 policy direction does not get into questions of security, in part because it was made pursuant to the Telecommunications Act, and those considerations did not exist in the Telecommunications Act at that time. However, that is part of the raison d'être of adding the protection of the Canadian telecom system to the policy objectives of proposed section 7 in Bill C-8 and establishing a legal framework by which the government can actually take legal action to protect telecommunications infrastructure.
