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February 11, 2012
Article by Matt Bartley, The National Post
Published February 11, 2012
“…In 2009, Mr. Deibert’s team uncovered the GhostNet cyber spy ring originating from China, which was found to be tapping into foreign embassies around the world, NATO operations in Germany and the Dalai Lama’s headquarters in India and the United States.
He said Canada is in a unique position to effect change on the international stage; many of the great thinkers in the history of communications theory — including Harold Innis, William Gibson and Marshall McLuhan — were Canadian. And as a country with a huge land mass and a thinly distributed population, Canadians intimately understand the importance of telecommunications and public broadcasting.
“We have a responsibility to do more as a country than we are presently doing,” Mr. Deibert said. “If I was shaping Canadian policy in this area, I would have a robust, comprehensive set of strategic policies protecting cyberspace as an open commons … why isn’t [the Canadian government] out there with a comprehensive vision of how this system should be governed?”