Mr. Bergeron, I accept your invitation to have a coffee. It would be nice to meet with you at any time.
I haven't seen Mr. Austin's assessment points. I don't know how he figured out where China stood and where Canada stood. However, I can tell you that a key element is the power of each country. China has a team of about 100,000 cyber soldiers, if I may use that unit of measurement. In the United States, between 5,000 and 6,000 cyber soldiers work at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade. In Canada, only 200 or 300 people are mandated to carry out cyber defence. Conducting cyber-attacks is even a recent mandate.
In terms of the balance of power, we need to know whether we have full command of the technology, in comparison with China. China can absorb losses, but we can't. This would have a greater impact on us.
I would need to study this issue further to gain a better understanding of Mr. Austin's position.