Public Safety committee  From my perspective, they seemed like sound approaches to dealing with the issues in the short and medium term, which we absolutely must do. I see this as part of a broader cyber program for Canada. We have to simultaneously figure out that this is where we want to be in 10 years

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. You're absolutely correct. The human factor is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, vulnerabilities, and that's not going to fundamentally change. New mathematics, quantum entanglement, is not going to change our fallibility as humans and our cor

Public Safety committee  Well, we need a coach and a quarterback, yes.

Public Safety committee  I think the federal government has the strongest moral authority to do that, alongside industry leaders and research thought leaders.

Public Safety committee  Well, I don't know what's happening in the classified space. I would anticipate that there is some activity there. In academia, we're watching and very openly explaining what we know. One important thing I didn't emphasize is that at some point we're not going to know, and we j

Public Safety committee  I think we're still second to none in fundamental science and technology development and so on. We wrote the business plan for owning the quantum world, and we raced ahead in implementing it, and we still have absolutely world-class assets, very much to be proud of, all across th

Public Safety committee  I think we need to convene a handful of thought leaders from each of these sectors to figure out the plan. As I said, anyone on their own doesn't have the know-how or the ability to implement the plan, or to even understand what the total plan should be. Together, we can figure i

Public Safety committee  Maybe I can take a quick stab at it. Unfortunately, you have to deal with all of the above. Obviously, human nature is to dodge the bullet that's about to hit you now, and the bigger catastrophe that might hit you in 10 years you can always put off without any immediate consequen

Public Safety committee  For context, to compare and contrast with the quantum threat—because there are so many ways we can get hacked and it can get really confusing—breaking cryptography fundamentally would be like the mother of all vulnerabilities, because you can't just fix the code. There's no algor

Public Safety committee  Do you want to start?

Public Safety committee  I think we have all the building blocks to win this game, but we don't have the plan of how to put these blocks together and really take advantage of them.

Public Safety committee  I think that we don't see the plan. The new cybersecurity centre is a wonderful first step, but there's just.... The puck was in the back of our net. We crossed the goal line, and we're halfway to our own blue line. We're not even close enough to the net to actually win this game

Public Safety committee  That's a great question. It's hard to predict how threat actors will exploit it. It's a scary game that we can play with each other. If you had a quantum computer, what would you do with it? What's your objective? Do you want to destroy the planet? Do you want to be rich? Do you

Public Safety committee  I should also mention our colleagues at SERENE-RISC. Their driving force, the head of SERENE-RISC, is on our governing board as well. That's another venue with a number of workshops that try to bring together these various stakeholders. Organizations like SERENE-RISC and ours ar

Public Safety committee  Academia is a pretty close-knit community. We tend to know each other. In this specific sub-discipline, we were successful in getting buy-in. In addition to focusing on the cutting-edge world research we're each doing as individuals, everyone was keen to collaborate and work toge