I would certainly echo the remarks that Tim just made.
We are spending more and more monies on finding the experts and the technologies that can stay one step ahead of what has become an unfortunate growth industry, in terms of cyber-attacks and hacking. Electricity within the energy community is the number one target for these hackers. Each of our utilities has come under a considerable amount of siege. Certainly you can multiply that by tenfold in terms of our American counterparts.
First, we certainly work very closely with not only the Department of Public Safety, but also our security agencies. We have found that the Communications Security Establishment, which most of our utilities have signed relationship agreements with, is providing top-notch information, and usually quicker than what we are getting on a shared basis from the American establishment. One of the reasons for that is that there are so many American security agencies that are trying to coordinate and then funnel the information. It is very time consuming. I applaud the Communications Security Establishment, among other agencies.
I think a second aspect has to be to get our regulators knowledgeable on cybersecurity, and the challenge there is that their reports at the end of the day are public, yet the information that you get from our cybersecurity agencies is confidential. How do we square that circle?
Lastly, we are all interrelated, so we have to have a North American disposition when it comes to cybersecurity frameworks, because we are as strong as the weakest link in that continental chain. There's a huge amount of work between the United States and Canada, government to government, private sector to private sector, and we participate in the Electricity Subsector Coordinating Council, which brings all of the personnel from our two security agencies together with the private sector. We are meeting on October 11 in Washington. The question there is Mexico, and without speaking ill of any of our partners, we, I think, have to integrate Mexico much quicker and deeper into the NERC establishment, which is the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, that actually puts out the cybersecurity standards.
I would certainly make an effort on the North American side, and I think our ministers of energy, continentally, when they meet, should have a standing item on cybersecurity.