A National Security Strategy for the 2020s - Report of the Task Force on National Security,

The protests in Ottawa and the border towns of Windsor, Ontario, Emerson, Manitoba, and Coutts, Alberta, in early 2022 were a disturbing taste of the harm a small group of determined protestors could inflict on people and the economy. [...] And while the stated target was the federal government, it was the people living in the immediate vicinity of the protests in the case of Ottawa, and the businesses dependent on cross-border trade in the cases of Windsor, Emerson, and Coutts, who suffered the harm. [...] We have also seen the theft of intellectual property to advance the interests of foreign states and state-backed companies at the expense of the legitimate owners of that technology and Canada’s economic security. [...] Priority should be given to the CSIS Act, the Emergencies Act and the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act of 2000, which established the financial intelligence unit called the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC). [...] The December 2021 mandate letters from the prime minister to relevant ministers also mentioned the introduction of legislation to safeguard critical infrastructure, such as 5G networks, an expansion of collaboration and intelligence sharing among all levels of government and Canadian partners to address security risks in research and investment, and the elaboration of a strategy that ensures the d.