<?xml version="1.0"?><Statute lims:pit-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:current-date="2026-06-17" lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579642" lims:id="1579642" bill-origin="commons" bill-type="govt-public" xml:lang="en" xmlns:lims="http://justice.gc.ca/lims"><Identification lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579643" lims:id="1579643"><BillNumber>C-8</BillNumber><Parliament><Session>1</Session><Number>45</Number><RegnalYear><Year-s>3-4</Year-s><Monarch>Charles III</Monarch></RegnalYear><Year-s>2025-2026</Year-s></Parliament><LongTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579644" lims:id="1579644">An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts</LongTitle><ShortTitle lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579645" lims:id="1579645" status="unofficial">An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts</ShortTitle><RunningHead lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579646" lims:id="1579646">An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts</RunningHead><BillHistory lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579647" lims:id="1579647"><Stages stage="consolidation"><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>18</DD></Date></Stages><Stages lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579648" lims:id="1579648" stage="assented-to"><Date><YYYY>2026</YYYY><MM>6</MM><DD>15</DD></Date></Stages></BillHistory><Chapter lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579649" lims:id="1579649"><ConsolidatedNumber official="no">C-55.5</ConsolidatedNumber><AnnualStatuteId><AnnualStatuteNumber>9</AnnualStatuteNumber><YYYY>2026</YYYY></AnnualStatuteId></Chapter><BillRefNumber date-time="2025-06-05">91126</BillRefNumber></Identification><Introduction lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579650" lims:id="1579650"><Enacts lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579663" lims:id="1579663"><Provision lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579664" lims:id="1579664" format-ref="indent-0-0" language-align="yes" list-item="no"><Text>His Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:</Text></Provision></Enacts></Introduction><Body lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579665" lims:id="1579665"><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579666" lims:id="1579666" level="1"><Label>PART 1</Label><MarginalNote in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579667" lims:id="1579667"><HistoricalNote>1993, c. 38</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Telecommunications Act</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579669" lims:id="1579669" target="1993, c. 38" type="amending"><Label>1</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579671" lims:id="1579671" type="amending"><Label>2</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579673" lims:id="1579673" type="amending"><Label>3</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579675" lims:id="1579675" type="amending"><Label>4</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579692" lims:id="1579692" type="amending"><Label>5</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579694" lims:id="1579694" type="amending"><Label>6</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579698" lims:id="1579698" type="amending"><Label>7</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579700" lims:id="1579700" type="amending"><Label>8</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579704" lims:id="1579704" type="amending"><Label>9</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579708" lims:id="1579708" type="amending"><Label>10</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579717" lims:id="1579717" level="1"><Label>PART 2</Label><TitleText>Critical Cyber Systems Protection Act</TitleText></Heading><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579718" lims:id="1579718" level="2"><TitleText>Enactment of Act</TitleText></Heading><Section in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579719" lims:id="1579719" type="amending"><Label>11</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579722" lims:id="1579722" level="2"><TitleText>Consequential Amendments</TitleText></Heading><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579723" lims:id="1579723" level="3"><MarginalNote in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579724" lims:id="1579724"><HistoricalNote>R.S., c. 18 (3rd Supp.), Part I</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions Act</TitleText></Heading><Section in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579726" lims:id="1579726" target="1985, c. 18 (3rd Supp.), Part I" type="amending"><Label>12</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Section in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579730" lims:id="1579730" type="amending"><Label>13</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579732" lims:id="1579732" level="3"><MarginalNote in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579733" lims:id="1579733"><HistoricalNote>1997, c. 9</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Nuclear Safety and Control Act</TitleText></Heading><Section in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579735" lims:id="1579735" target="1997, c. 9" type="amending"><Label>14</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579739" lims:id="1579739" level="3"><MarginalNote in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579740" lims:id="1579740"><HistoricalNote>2001, c. 29</HistoricalNote></MarginalNote><TitleText>Transportation Appeal Tribunal of Canada Act</TitleText></Heading><Section in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579742" lims:id="1579742" target="2001, c. 29" type="amending"><Label>15</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579746" lims:id="1579746" level="2"><TitleText>Coming into Force</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579747" lims:id="1579747" type="CIF"><MarginalNote lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579748" lims:id="1579748">Order in council</MarginalNote><Label><FootnoteRef idref="fn_2026-c9_E_transform1">*</FootnoteRef>16</Label><Text>The provisions of this Part come into force on a day or days to be fixed by order of the Governor in Council.</Text><Footnote id="fn_2026-c9_E_transform1" placement="section" status="editorial"><Label>*</Label><Text>[Note: Part 2 not in force.]</Text></Footnote></Section><Heading lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579749" lims:id="1579749" level="1"><Label>PART 3</Label><TitleText>Five-year Review</TitleText></Heading><Section lims:inforce-start-date="2026-06-15" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:lastAmendedDate="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579750" lims:id="1579750" type="amending"><Label>17</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></Section></Body><Schedule in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579757" lims:id="1579757" bilingual="no" spanlanguages="no"><ScheduleFormHeading in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579758" lims:id="1579758" type="amending"><Label>SCHEDULE</Label><Text>[Amendments]</Text></ScheduleFormHeading><Schedule in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579759" lims:id="1579759" bilingual="no" spanlanguages="no"><ScheduleFormHeading in-force="no" lims:enacted-date="2026-06-15" lims:fid="1579760" lims:id="1579760"><Label>SCHEDULE 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