The Financial Post reports in its Saturday, Sept. 9, edition that a new report by the Business Council of Canada, a group of about 150 companies including Microsoft Canada and Google Canada, said successive governments have "ignored, overlooked or simply taken for granted" this country's economic security. The Post's Naimul Karim writes that rising geopolitical tensions accompanied by technological advances in cyberspace that can better penetrate defence systems has put Canada "in the midst of the greatest, most complex, and unpredictable security environment" in a generation, said the authors of Economic Security is National Security, which came out on Thursday. The report said: "Canadian companies, in almost every region and sector of our economy, now face unprecedented dangers. They are operating on an increasingly skewed playing field in which traditional private commerce is always at a disadvantage." The report, which was based on consultations with businesses, security experts and former government officials, urges the need for a new national security strategy, the core of which should be based on economic security. Canada passed its most recent national security policy in 2004.