Procedure and House Affairs committee  ... about 6,080.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Very well. Even if the riding next door, that of my colleague, included about 78,000 people, its size is enormous. If there is greater population density, we believe that it's more efficient from the point of view of representation.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No meltdown.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm sorry I'm late. I was just giving a speech on nuclear terrorism. I'll try to be brief. I'm hoping no one is going to have a meltdown.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In essence, the revised plan provides a boundary that would have 85,595 people living in it, which is plus 13.5%. What I'm objecting to is the removal of nine polls situated within the city of Moncton on the north side of the Trans-Canada highway. The population there is 6,087.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's a good one. Let's start with effectiveness of representation. All nine polls are sitting within the boundaries of the city of Moncton. There's a public transit system that goes from where they live to my riding office within about 15 minutes. At this time, there is no public transit that goes to the honourable Dominic LeBlanc's riding, which is in Shediac.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  On Public Safety Canada's website, we actually have some guidance for the public at large, people who are not IT, within an IT department, or within a company or a government department. We provide that sort of advice to the public on how best to protect themselves.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  One is making sure your firewalls are up to date. So when the company that you have your firewall with sends you an update, please update it, because that will actually defeat a significant percentage of the attacks that might otherwise go onto your system. Another is, before clicking on an attachment that comes to you, think about it.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I don't have a personal opinion on that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  General awareness of what the threats are, or the issues, is a useful thing to try to raise awareness. Public Safety Canada engaged in quite a campaign to do that for Canadians at large. Trying to make citizens aware of what the threats and risks are is a very useful exercise at the preventative or front end of it before incidents actually occur.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We're learning more about the threats every day. One of the things we're actively engaged in is reaching out to the private sector through a variety of forums of the critical infrastructure centre networks that we've established. We're building up the trust within the private sector for them to come forward to talk about the kinds of experiences they have.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We have very good sharing agreements with a number of countries. It has proven to be very useful and is very robust, both in terms of best practices at a technical level, but also at a policy level. So as countries are developing cyber-strategies, there are a number of ideas that are coming forward, and that we're sharing aggressively.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Mr. Chairman, that's probably a good way to broadly characterize the responsibilities. We're looking at the integrity of both the data and the systems. We're looking at the confidentiality of data, ensuring that whatever is on the systems remains confidential. We're looking at the integrity of the data, so someone isn't going in and changing what the data is; and also at the availability of the data, that you're not denied access to your information in a variety of ways.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It was primarily to differentiate between the roles and responsibilities of the Communications Security Establishment, which provides the technical expertise and guidance for the Government of Canada's systems, and the responsibilities within Public Safety, which focus outside the federal government to provide the knowledge and best practices that the federal government has to a range of outside customers and clients, from provincial and territorial governments to some of the critical infrastructure sectors.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We produce a variety of information products for all of the people we deal with outside the federal government, ranging from very technical responses to more broad, information-based notes, and information or advisories on vulnerabilities that we're seeing. So there's a range of types of products.