Thank you, Mr. Chair.
l'm pleased to be here to discuss the progress made by Public Safety Canada regarding chapter 3 of the 2012 Fall Report of the Auditor General of Canada.
Joining me are:
From Public Safety Canada, Lynda Clairmont, senior assistant deputy minister of the National Security Branch, and Robert Gordon, special advisor from Cyber Security.
From Shared Services Canada, Benoît Long, senior assistant deputy minister of Transportation, Service Strategy and Design.
From Communications Security Establishment Canada, Toni Moffa, deputy chief of Information Technology Security, and Scott Jones, acting director general of Cyber Defence.
From the Treasury Board Secretariat, as you noted, we have Corinne Charette, chief information officer, and Colleen D'Iorio, executive director of identity management and security.
Mr. Chair, I welcome the Auditor General's report, which included a number of important recommendations on how to keep our cyber-networks secure both within and outside government .
Since October, my department has made great progress and, today, I am tabling a management action plan that outlines our next steps.
Mr. Chair, cyber-security is a shared responsibility of all government departments and agencies at all levels, of international allies, of industry partners, and of individual Canadians.
We can only keep our networks resilient and secure through an integrated approach, as established in Canada's cyber-security strategy. The strategy comprises three pillars: securing government systems, partnering to secure vital cyber-systems outside the government, and helping Canadians stay safe online.
The federal government has backed this strategy with significant funding—a $90-million investment at its launch, and just recently, an additional $155 million over five years to further address the evolving cyber threat.
I will use the first two pillars of the strategy as guideposts as I discuss our progress on the Auditor General's report.
Related to the first pillar, the Auditor General asked Public Safety Canada to develop a public action plan with deliverables and timelines for our strategy. I am pleased to say that this plan has now been developed and was released last week. It sets out an active partnership-based approach to help us communicate our progress more clearly to Canadians and underscores the need for all Canadians and owners and operators of vital systems to do their part. Furthermore, we have developed a horizontal performance measurement strategy with key departments and agencies, which will help us track our progress in the coming months and years.
Related to the second pillar—that of securing vital systems networks outside the federal government—the Auditor General recommended that we bolster the capacity of the Canadian Cyber Incident Response Centre…