QUESTION PERIOD — Ministry of Public Safety
Cybersecurity
April 21, 2026
Good afternoon, minister. Beyond Bill C-8 concerning cybersecurity, you have the authority to take concrete action through your role as Minister of Public Safety. My question concerns the Anthropic firm’s Claude Mythos, a next-generation AI tool used to detect cybersecurity system weaknesses, and which has unequivocally been identified as a potential national security threat by the cybersecurity community.
Minister, have you had any discussions with Anthropic about including Canada and its agencies in the Glasswing project to test our own computer systems? If so, in what context? Can you clarify for us whether your department has assessed this project’s strategic interest? Are any steps currently being taken to get Canada involved?
Thank you, senator.
Correctional Service Canada, CSC, for example, reports directly to the Minister of National Defence, and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, CSIS, of course, reports to me. Both of our security intelligence agencies are constantly reviewing different emerging technologies, so I have no doubt that they’re working on Anthropic as well.
I’m not directly involved with it right now, but in a broader sense around artificial intelligence and the work around cyber, there is work happening with the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation as well as our security apparatus to ensure that we can embed better and more advanced tools into the work that we’re doing on a day-to-day basis.
The evolving threat levels by a range of new technologies are quite worrisome. We’ve had recent examples where they have had devastating impacts.
Part of the exercise for us as a government is to see how we ensure adherence to norms and to elements of reporting that will ensure that social media platforms, for example, are bringing information to law enforcement so that enforcement can take place.
Thank you. From a practical point of view, I think we need to spend some time talking about what’s happening in the United States. The Federal Reserve chair called for a meeting with the big banks to address risks related to Claude Mythos. This is no mere technological debate; it’s really about national infrastructure security. What specific actions are you yourself taking to ensure we have the right tools to deal with this threat? This is just as much a threat to infrastructure security as it is to the country’s economic security.
Thank you, senator.
This is a very timely question.
There are a number of conversations taking place between the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, myself, the Minister of Canadian Identity and our national security apparatus on emerging technologies and how we address them, both from a regulatory perspective — what regulatory provisions and laws we need to have in place to hold some platforms accountable in case of gross error or gross negligence or negligence — and from the perspective of how we proactively protect Canadians. That’s an area where we are continuously looking for answers. I can’t say we have the answers right now, but we, like all governments, are working through the different types of technology that exist and —
Thank you, minister.
