Potential for foreign interference in upcoming election a growing concern as province remains tight-lipped
We’ll likely never know all the details about the recent cyberattack against the B.C. government. But we deserve to know more than we do now, one month after the attack occurred, and five months before a provincial election in which the potential for foreign interference has been shown once again to be a very real threat.
B.C.’s head of the public service, Shannon Salter, gave a brief timeline of events but referred detailed questions to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security. The centre said it “generally does not comment on specific cyber security incidents or possible threat actors” and referred questions back to British Columbia. That’s not transparency.“That's why we put a priority and investments to ensure our systems are secure.
At least one federal riding in B.C. was targeted by China to the point it could have changed the outcome of the election in Steveston—Richmond East, according to the preliminary report from the public inquiry. “This bill modernizes and strengthens our laws to better counteract foreign influences in our political and educational systems,” said Stone.
That’s too little, too late. With an election looking, the stakes are too high to sit around for some sort of navel-gazing exercise completed years from now.
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