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08OTTAWA274 | 2008-02-22 20:08 | 2011-04-28 00:12 | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | Embassy Ottawa

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 29 OTTAWA 000274

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS
    SENSITIVE
    STATE FOR S/CT (Robertson), WHA/CAN (Fox)
    WHITEHOUSE FOR HSC
    DHS for International Affairs
    DHS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION
    DOE FOR P&I

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: ASEC ECON PTER PREL PGOV ETTC EAID EAGR EFIN KHLS
    CA
    SUBJ:  CI/KR Response for S/CT: Canada's Critical Infrastructure
    (CI) and Key Resources (KR)

    OTTAWA 00000274  001.2 OF 029

    ZFR/////////////ZFR//////////////ZFR///////// ///////ZFR///////ZFR

    PLEASE CANCEL OTTAWA 274 IMI OTTAWA 274.  CABLE HAS BEEN RE-SENT
    WITH NEW NUMBERS.

    SORRY FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE.

    ZFR///////////ZFR///////////////ZFR////////// ///////ZFR///////ZFR

    OTTAWA 00000274  002 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Toronto would be felt instantly on U.S. markets.

    ¶B. (SBU) Chemical & Hazardous Materials - Canada's main
    petrochemical complex is at Sarnia, Ontario, opposite Port Huron,
    Michigan, where major oil and gas pipelines from western Canada
    terminate.  Sarnia and Port Huron are both relatively small towns

    OTTAWA 00000274  003 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    and they share resources, such as chemical spill response teams, in
    emergencies.  Also, Canada is the world's largest single producer of
    uranium, accounting for about one-third of the world's uranium mine
    output.  Cameco's refinery at Blind River, Ontario takes uranium
    oxide concentrate (U3O8) from mines in Canada and abroad and refines
    it to UO3, an intermediate product. The UO3 is trucked to Port Hope,

    OTTAWA 00000274  004 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Ontario (on the shores of Lake Ontario) where Cameco has about
    one-quarter of the Western world's uranium hexafluoride (UF6)
    conversion capacity - 12,400 metric tons per year.  The uranium
    hexafluoride is then shipped outside Canada for enrichment
    (including in the United States) for use in light water reactors.
    Disruption of uranium mining activities in Saskatchewan or the

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    milling and conversion facilities in Ontario could impact fuel
    supply for American nuclear power plants.  Destruction, disruption
    or exploitation of the Port Hope plant could lead to radiological
    contamination of American territory in New York state.

    ¶C. (SBU) Defense Industrial Base - The "Stryker" armored vehicle for

    OTTAWA 00000274  006 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    the U.S. Army is built by General Dynamics; the  structure,
    fabrication and final assembly of the "Stryker" takes place in
    London, Ontario (and also at Anniston, Alabama). Disruption at the
    Ontario plant would impact acquisition and deployment of the
    "Stryker."

    OTTAWA 00000274  007 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    ¶D. (SBU) Emergency Services - Response plans exist at the federal,
    state/provincial and local levels to deal with cross-border
    emergency response.  For example, The Joint Inland Pollution
    Contingency Plan is aimed at developing a coordinated and integrated
    response between Canadian and United States governments to pollution
    incidents and Mutual Aid pacts exist at the local level between

    OTTAWA 00000274  008 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Qnada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    towns in the U.S. and in Canada, as in Port Huron - Sarnia (see B
    above).  Were these cross-border services disrupted, adequate
    emergency response might be otherwise unavailable.

    ¶E. (SBU) Energy - Canada is the largest source of U.S. imports of
    oil, natural gas, electricity and uranium; the United States exports

    OTTAWA 00000274  009 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    electricity, coal and petroleum products to Canada. This energy
    trade is carried by a shared web of oil and gas pipelines, and our
    interconnected electricity grid.  On the Canadian side of the
    border, the private sector owns over 85 per cent of the energy
    infrastructure. Our interdependent relationship was highlighted
    dramatically in August, 2003, when approximately 50 million people

    OTTAWA 00000274  010 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    in Ontario and seven U.S. states suffered a blackout of more than 48
    hours due to a failure of our shared electricity grid (precipitated
    by a fault at an Ohio power plant).

    ¶F. (SBU) Food & Agriculture - Canada and the United States are
    engaged in a high volume of trade in agricultural products and

    OTTAWA 00000274  011 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    seafood; the potential impact on the U.S. of agro-terrorism or
    bioterrorism at a Canadian food facility would be correspondingly
    high.  The top five agri-food imports into the U.S. from Canada are:
    baked goods (including pasta and breakfast cereals), beef,
    beverages, vegetables and pork.

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    ¶G. (SBU) Information Technology - Millions of Americans  rely on the
    BlackBerry device produced by Research in Motion (RIM) of Waterloo,
    Ontario; its network operations center in Ontario processes every
    e-mail message to or from a BlackBerry. In early February 2008 more
    than 5 million users were left without BlackBerry connectivity for
    up to 24 hours during a technical upgrade, underscoring the

    OTTAWA 00000274  013 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    cross-border impact of any disruption to RIM's Ontario facilities.

    ¶H. (SBU) National Monuments & Icons - Niagara Falls is located on
    the Ontario-New York border and ranks high as a "North American"
    icon (the Canadian "Horseshoe falls" is probably the most
    picturesque portion).  Disruption at this locale would likely have

    OTTAWA 00000274  014 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    wide-ranging psycho-social impacts globally.

    ¶I. (SBU) Postal & Shipping - The St. Lawrence Seaway, jointly
    managed by the U.S. and Canada, with its system of locks allows
    ocean-going vessels to move between the high seas into the Great
    Lakes, and facilitates ship-borne commerce between American and

    OTTAWA 00000274  015 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Canadian ports on the Great Lakes. Almost 50 percent of Seaway
    traffic travels to and from overseas ports, especially those in
    Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Disruption on the seaway would
    create a cascade of logistics problems for many shippers in the
    Great Lakes states.

    OTTAWA 00000274  016 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    ¶J. (SBU) Public Health and Healthcare - Approximately 3,500 Canadian
    health care workers commute to the Detroit region on a daily basis,
    and that number is expected to increase as Michigan health care
    facilities continue recruiting in Canada due to an ongoing nursing
    shortage.  Disruption of this commute (via disinformation, attacks
    on transport or bridges, for example) would directly and immediately

    OTTAWA 00000274  017 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    impact health care for thousands of Michigan residents.

    ¶K. (SBU) Telecommunications - Canadian telecoms companies carry
    Canadian defense communications into the U.S. where they link up
    with U.S. networks. Canadian financial institutions with large U.S.
    holdings and operations (e.g. Bank of Montreal with Harris Bank;

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Toronto Dominion with TD Banknorth; and Royal Bank of Canada with
    Centura) use Canadian telecom networks to relay critical financial
    data.  Much command and control functionality for cross-border
    electricity grids and pipelines is carried on Canadian telecoms
    networks.  Disruption to telecoms systems in Canada would have
    immediate and deleterious effect on United States interests.

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    ¶L. (SBU) Transportation - The value of goods transported annually
    across a single bridge, the Ambassador bridge, between Detroit,
    Michigan and Windsor, Ontario (valued at approximately US$108
    billion in 2006), is more than the entire annual merchandise trade
    between the United States and the United Kingdom (US$98 billion in

    OTTAWA 00000274  020 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    2006). Destruction or disruption of this bridge would have a
    significant impact on, inter alia, the highly integrated North
    American automotive industry.

    ¶M. (SBU) Water - The Point Roberts Water District in Washington
    state draws 840,000 gallons of water per day for its residents from

    OTTAWA 00000274  021 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    the Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) from a reservoir located
    in Delta, British Columbia. Disruption of this supply would create
    significant distress for the population of this diminutive United
    States exclave.

    ¶N. (SBU) Commercial Facilities - NAVCanada (NAVCAN) is the private,

    OTTAWA 00000274  022 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    not-for-profit operator of Canada's civil air navigation system;
    NAVCAN manages all transatlantic air traffic between Iceland and
    North American landfall.  Disruption of this service would affect
    (cancel or postpone) hundreds of transatlantic flights per day.

    ¶O. (SBU) Dams - Three dams in British Columbia regulate the flow of

    OTTAWA 00000274  023 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    the Columbia River into the United States. The Mica, Hugh
    Keenleyside and Duncan dams were built as a result of the Columbia
    River Treaty, signed by Canada and the United States in 1964. The
    Treaty dams provide flood control, and they are essential to the
    maintenance of power generation at hydro-electric plants in the
    United States.  Flooding and/or loss of electricity generation

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    capacity in the United States could result if the dams were
    destroyed or otherwise exploited.

    ¶P. (SBU) Government Facilities - NORAD, the North American Aerospace
    Defense Command, is an integrated bi-national United States and
    Canadian organization charged with the missions of aerospace warning

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    and aerospace control for North America.  One of three subordinate
    regional HQs is located in Canada, at Winnipeg, Manitoba (the other
    two regional HQs are in Alaska and Florida).

    ¶Q. (SBU) Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs)- In Ontario ten operating
    nuclear reactor units are situated at Pickering and Darlington on

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Lake Ontario facing New York State (roughly 60 miles north-east of
    Buffalo).  Another six operating nuclear reactor units are situated
    on the shores of Lake Huron, adjacent to Lake Superior.  One nuclear
    reactor is located in New Brunswick adjacent to the Bay of Fundy,
    about 45 miles from the New Brunswick-Maine border, and one is
    situated in Quebec on the south shore of the St. Lawrence River

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    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    about 100 miles north of the Quebec-Vermont border. If an NPP
    containment facility were breached and radiological materials were
    released some contamination of U.S. territory (land or water) might
    be expected.

    ¶6.  (SBU) Comment:  The inventory of critical infrastructure and key

    OTTAWA 00000274  028 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    resources that we have compiled here is illustrative, not
    exhaustive.  Post believes that a more comprehensive listing might
    be obtained from the Department of Homeland Security.

    ¶7. (U) This message was cleared with DHS Attach at Mission Canada.

    OTTAWA 00000274  029 OF 029

    ¶1. Summary: The economies, societies and environments of Canada and
    the United States are inextricably intertwined; the relationship is
    most easily reflected in the staggering volume of bilateral trade --
    over US$1.5 billion a day in goods - and the 300,000 people who
    cross the shared border every day to work or visit.  Moreover,
    Canada is the single largest foreign supplier of fossil fuels to the
    United States (providing 17 percent of U.S. oil imports and over 80
    percent of U.S. natural gas imports).  Our food and agriculture
    markets are almost completely integrated, with Canada accounting for
    about 20 percent of total US agri-food imports.  In addition our two
    countries' financial markets and telecommunications and electrical
    networks are highly interconnected.  As a consequence of this
    exceptional interrelationship a disruption to Canada's critical
    infrastructure (CI) could have an immediate and deleterious impact
    on the United States. Because it would be virtually impossible to
    provide an exhaustive accounting of Canada's CI, this cable gives
    illustrative examples of CI in various sectors. Protection of CI is
    a Canadian national priority, and Canada is a close and trusted
    partner with the United States in working to protect CI in North
    America.  End summary.
    Canada's Approach to CI
    ¶2. Like the United States, Canada's critical infrastructure consists
    of physical and information technology facilities, networks,
    services and assets essential to the health, safety, security or
    economic well-being of its citizens, or to the effective functioning
    of government.  In many respects, the two countries should be viewed
    as sharing the same infrastructure (pipelines, bridges, power and
    phone lines) sprawling across a shared economic space.  As in the
    United States, it is estimated that most (between 85 and 95
    percent)of Canada's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by
    private sector firms, which therefore bear primary responsibility
    for the development and implementation of business continuity plans.
    In addition to the federal government's role, the provinces and
    territories also have a significant jurisdictional role in critical
    infrastructure protection and emergency management.  These
    government entities also own and regulate some critical
    infrastructure.
    ¶3. Canada has established the National Critical Infrastructure
    Assurance Program (NCIAP) - an ongoing collaboration between private
    sector partners and federal, provincial and territorial governments
    - to provide a national framework for cooperative action and to
    build a resilient national critical infrastructure. The federal
    government classifies critical infrastructure within ten sectors, as
    opposed to the USG classification system of 17 critical
    infrastructure/key resources sectors.
    ¶4.  The 10 Canadian sectors are:
    * Energy and Utilities (e.g., electrical power, natural gas, oil
    production/transmission)
    * Information and Communications Technology (e.g.,
    telecommunications, broadcasting systems, software, hardware, and
    networks including the Internet)
    * Finance (e.g., large-value payment, securities clearing and
    settlement systems)
    * Health Care (e.g., hospitals, blood-supply facilities and
    pharmaceutical manufacturers)
    * Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    Q* Food (e.g., safety, distribution, agriculture and food industry)
    * Water (e.g., drinking water and wastewater management)
    * Transportation (e.g., road, rail, marine, and aviation)
    * Safety (e.g., chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear
    safety, dangerous goods, search and rescue, emergency services and
    dams)
    * Government (e.g., services, facilities, information networks and
    key national monuments)
    * Manufacturing (e.g., defense industrial base, chemical industry)
    Cooperation with the United States
    ¶5. At the federal government level, the Public Safety Canada is
    responsible for national CI policy.  Public Safety Canada works
    primarily with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
    (particularly with the Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection)
    on the identification of shared CI, threat analysis and response
    planning; since 2005, under the auspices of the SPP.  We understand
    that Public Safety Canada and DHS have recently collaborated on a
    detailed threat analysis of shared CI. Post would welcome a copy.
    Examples of Canadian Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources with
    Potentially Significant U.S. Impact (USG Categories)

    Wilkins

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