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National strategy for critical infrastructure protection

The National Security Policy, released in April 2004, commits to the release of a position paper to establish key elements of a proposed National Critical Infrastructure Protection Strategy. These key elements will form a basis from which the critical infrastructure protection challenge will be met by the federal, provincial and territorial governments as well as the industry sectors.

This commitment was met in November 2004 when PSEPC issued the Government of Canada Position Paper on a National Critical Infrastructure Protection Strategy. Based on the work begun under the National Critical Infrastructure Assurance Program (NCIAP), the Paper was developed as a result of dialogue with stakeholders on concepts and issues surrounding the development of the NCIAP and a Discussion Paper. The provinces, territories and industry associations shared their views on shaping the program and presented information about their existing critical infrastructure protection programs and plans.

Canada’s Strategy will be developed in a similar manner, through targeted consultations with private industry leaders representing the ten CI sectors as well as various federal, provincial and municipal governments responsible for critical infrastructure protection.

These consultations began in May of 2005 and gathered feedback to establish which key elements need to be developed for the Strategy to best serve the needs of stakeholders.