Publications and Reports

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Directions for Avoiding Complicity in Mistreatment by Foreign Entities 2023 Annual Report This is PS’s fourth annual report detailing its activities related to the Act and the Directions. This report covers information sharing activities undertaken from January 1, 2023, to December 31, 2023, and discusses PS’s compliance with the Act and the Directions. 2024-05-06
What We Heard and Learned Report: CSIS Act Consultations In November 2023, the Government of Canada launched public consultations on possible amendments to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act (the CSIS Act) that would better equip CSIS to carry out its mandate to investigate, advise the Government of Canada, and take measures to reduce threats to the security of Canada and all Canadians. 2024-04-25
What We Heard Report: Consulting Canadians on the merits of a Foreign Influence Transparency Registry This report provides an overview of the information received from over 1,000 online respondents and over 80 key stakeholder groups. The report also addresses public commentary in Canadian media on the implementation of FITR. 2023-11-24
Enhancing measures to counter foreign interference: Whether to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act Amendments to the CSIS Act would better equip CSIS to carry out its mandate to investigate, advise the Government of Canada, and take measures to reduce threats to the security of Canada. 2023-11-24
Enhancing Foreign Influence Transparency: Exploring Measures to Strengthen Canada's Approach Public and Stakeholder Consultation Paper 2023-03-10
Research Security Information Update – July 2022 The Research Security Update is an open-source collation of information, produced by Public Safety Canada's Safeguarding Science team, on issues considered relevant to Canada's broad research security interests. 2022-08-03
National Cyber Security Strategy 2019-2024: Report on the Mid-term Review Our Strategy was designed to be adaptable to the continuously changing nature of cyberspace. To ensure the Strategy remains responsive and agile to new and existing issues, Public Safety Canada led a Mid-Term Review (the Review) of the Strategy, which helped to identify risks, opportunities and gaps in our current approach. The Review has made clear what our future priorities in cyberspace need to be. 2022-06-27
Research Security Information Update - February 2022 The Research Security Information Update is an unclassified open-source collation, produced by Public Safety Canada's Safeguarding Science team, on issues considered relevant to Canada's broad research security interests. 2022-02-23
National Cyber Security Action Plan (2019-2024) Every day, Canadians are online – more so than people anywhere else in the world – for work, play, shopping, banking, business, getting our news and just staying in touch. Yet the same digital infrastructure that enhances our quality of life can also leave us vulnerable to those who would do us harm. 2019-08-07
2018 Public Report on the Terrorism Threat to Canada In many ways, this year's threat update is similar to those of the recent past. The threat posed by those espousing violent interpretations of religious, ideological or political views persists, but has remained stable. 2019-04-29
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