Thank you, Mr. Chair.
We've implemented a whole series of security enhancements based on the lessons learned from this process. The different areas of security policy and procedure that I outlined earlier range from cybersecurity to physical security to security clearances and above all to employee awareness, education and compliance. These are all reflections of the lessons we've learned from these issues.
In addition, I would say that the much stronger collaboration with our Public Safety and Canadian Security Intelligence Service colleagues that began during and immediately before these incidents, and the awareness and outreach of the research community that triggered the agency to look into these cases and ultimately led to the termination of these scientists, were the initial program of that work. Our global environment and evolving threat picture is such that we have to be closely joined up throughout the research process and throughout our work.
The additional work we have undertaken with Public Safety and CSIS through the pandemic context and our emergency response protocols are much tighter and closer than before.
The policies and procedures we put in place from an employee and research perspective are designed to provide flags much earlier than would have been the case before these incidents occurred.