QUANTUM THREAT INTELLIGENCE
Budget 2026, tabled November 5, 2026, directs up to $2.7 billion over five years from previously announced funding to sovereign frontier technologies including Phase 2 of the Canadian Quantum Champions Program, which targets industrial scale quantum computers for problems including cryptography. It also proposes $12 million over four years for the Canadian Cyber Defence Collective's Strategic Forum. For infrastructure operators the signal is that Ottawa is funding the machines that will test today's encryption while the ITSM.40.001 and Bill C-8 timelines stand unchanged.
Every advance in quantum computing shortens the window for migrating long lived infrastructure off quantum-vulnerable encryption, and data captured today can be decrypted later. Fabric Networks helps energy, government, telecom and community networks move to quantum-safe encryption on their own timeline, not an adversary's.