On that note, in 2024, Chinese state-sponsored hackers, specifically Salt Typhoon, got into lawful intercept infrastructure that had been built into American telecom systems. The access point that existed for authorized law enforcement became the way a foreign state got in. Bill C-22 asks Canadian providers to build that same type of architecture.
Did the Department of Public Safety do a threat assessment specifically on that scenario and, if it did, is there something we can see?
