To me, when someone says “strategy” in a public sector context, what I believe is that it has to be horizontal in government, not vertical. What I see being called “strategy” is that they've secured this specific thing. You know, this X-ray machine meets the needs of the security of this embassy. I think we have to be a little more holistic. I don't mean that just in a Canadian context. We have to look at multilateralism and evolve it as well.
We have the Five Eyes, which I would say is one of the most effective forms of multilateralism that Canada is a part of, discussing critical issues of cybercrime, infrastructure, integrity and such. We are putting it at risk currently.
I think better conversations with our allies where we have capabilities, not just in Canada but within our tight, close allies where we have co-accreditation of technologies and of governance of those technologies, these are some actual solutions we can be looking at. Not everything is going to be able to be built under the watchful eye of the Government of Canada. We have to take a risk management approach here, not a risk avoidance approach, because we're just going to be let down at the end of the day if we have a risk avoidance approach.