WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a news conference at the Geneva Press Club in Geneva on Nov. 4. (Valentin Flaurau/Reuters)

By CBC News

WikiLeaks has published a secret U.S. State Department list of key infrastructure sites in foreign countries -- including dozens in Canada -- that Washington considers vital to the national security of the United States.

The list of "critical infrastructure" and "key resources" located outside the U.S. was put together as part of a State Department order to compile an inventory of foreign sites whose loss could "critically impact" the public health or security of the U.S.

According to a February 2009 cable sent to U.S. embassies and consulates around the world, U.S. diplomats were instructed to update an existing list of foreign sites that could seriously harm the U.S. if they were targeted by terrorists or destroyed by other means.

Canadian sites on the 2008 list include such things as the Darlington nuclear power plant east of Toronto, a number of international rail crossings and bridges, oil and gas pipelines, the James Bay hydroelectric project in Quebec, the Hibernia Atlantic undersea cable, several dams, a number of mines, and several factories producing everything from missile parts to plasma to vaccines.

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