Canada jointly released its National Strategy and Action Plan for Critical Infrastructure to address the full range of risks and threats to critical infrastructure.

The Action Plan calls for the creation of a National Cross-Sector Forum to promote collaboration across the sector networks and address cross-jurisdictional and cross-sectoral interdependencies. One of the key actions will be to form a Federal-Provincial-Territorial Critical Infrastructure Working Group that has sector-wide representation. Additionally, in order to boost information sharing, this working Group will create an information-dessimination framework. Each sector will also do a risk-assessment analysis and these sector risk-profiles will be used to develop sector-specific work plans that will be implemented by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Critical Infrastructure Working Group Read more »