Telecom association wants harsher penalties for network vandalism entrenched in Criminal Code

The Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA), a national organization representing Canadian telecom service providers, is calling on the federal government to amend Canada’s Criminal Code to include harsher penalties for acts of vandalism or theft of critical telecom network equipment. While it welcomes proposed changes to the Criminal Code under the government’s new foreign interference legislation — Bill C-70, tabled in the House of Commons on May 6 — which would impose new offences for sabotaging “essential infrastructure” including information and communication technology infrastructure, the CTA said in a press release Monday the new proposed legislation doesn’t go far enough. “While Bill C-70 addresses acts of...