The security assessment, which is constantly changing and which is relevant to the previous member's question, is material here. As we move more services to digital and online, the number of threats are increasing, as I testified earlier. This is not my data. This is from Scott Jones from the CSE. We intercept and block two billion malicious events every single day. Those are only increasing and they're only getting more sophisticated.
The risk here is that sensitive government operations could have been compromised. Services to Canadians could have been interrupted, stopped or brought down. As we have seen most frequently, there are attempts to obtain information about Canadians for financial gain elsewhere in the system. That is one part of this.
The other part of this is our relationship with the vendors who take very seriously the technology that they deploy and provide to the Government of Canada to defend against some of these security threats. If they felt that their proprietary information was being disclosed or compromised, they may choose not to or they may alter the arrangement within which we would do that. This could have a material impact on the availability and the cost of those services to the Canadian taxpayer.