This article will look at the baggage‑tag switching scandal at Toronto Pearson Airport—where insiders allegedly moved passengers’ tags onto drug‑filled suitcases—and use it to show how modern airports have become vulnerable to cyber‑physical systems, not just places with broken conveyor belts.
Canada’s threat environment has already made clear that cyber risks demand serious attention; the real question is what the country chooses to defend. The CRA incidents and NATO’s resilience agenda show that protecting Canada today means treating core digital systems as strategic assets essential to public trust, fiscal stability, and national security