I need to address several areas of your statement just to hopefully provide some clarity and some context for what I will ask Rich to deal with, which is the concept of measuring our strength and reporting it into the alliance as one forum that we work with.
When you look at the Government of Canada and our IM/IT fabric and you look at the cyber for that, you see that National Defence has a mandate in the National Defence Act that clearly states we are to defend Defence, and we can do that with our abilities and current constructs.
When it comes to deployed operations, we take direction from the government. The government has to ask us whether it's land, sea, air, or cyber or space. We react to a request from the government, whether it's domestic or abroad, and that becomes a mission. It becomes an operation, and it's guided by, as I said earlier, the commander of Joint Operations Command. I would offer that the mandate to protect the government and the equities of the government's data is actually a mandate that is provided to the Canadian Communications Security Establishment, and they work closely with Shared Services Canada to do that. They help us manage the parts of our network that are involved in the government back office, so to speak, with Shared Services, but we are still authoritatively in control of defending Defence.
I just wanted you to understand that National Defence really doesn't have a mandate to protect the government or defend the government unless the government asks us to, and they have. In issues like the National Research Council or other exploits that the government had been managing, at times National Defence was asked to come in as a domestic operation and provide services to the government in that area. I just wanted to explain the command and control—