Thanks very much, Mr. Chair.
I really appreciate the testimony we've had on cyber defence today, and I am reassured that we're doing our best in cyber-defence, but your testimony today identified that the legislation in Bill C-59 is really going to bring CSE in line with the authority to do active cyber that DND already sees itself as having.
In the legislation, section 31 says essentially that active cyber, after being authorized, can be carried out despite any act of Parliament or any act of a foreign state. This is a very broad grant of authority.
I'm wondering whether you consider that DND is already authorized to conduct active cyber-activities without regard to any act of Parliament or the act of any other state.