Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
This government takes cybersecurity very seriously and in budget 2018 committed $500 million over five years for a national cybersecurity strategy. A big pillar of that cybersecurity strategy is to help build up domestic research and innovation capacity. This means making investments to help Canadian tech companies, innovation companies, grow and scale.
You can look, for example, at the $10 million that was given last year to the Rogers Cybersecure Catalyst program in Brampton. This was a partnership with Ryerson University. You can look at the $41 million in investment through FedDev, again in quantum projects, cybersecurity projects related to quantum at Waterloo. This was through Quantum Valley. There was $49 million of FedDev funding that was leveraged to create a cybersecurity centre in Vancouver. My point is that this government is making significant investments in tech companies and in innovation locally.
I wanted to ask Mr. Bergen whether we're on the correct path in terms of making these significant investments in domestic Canadian cybersecurity tech companies to help us address some of the threats we're facing.