From my perspective what is crucial is what's happening to technology. How good are the systems and what evidence do we have of this? I think the evidence is that they're getting better and better, so they're more significant as a factor in security.
As far as Canada is concerned, I think there are advantages to being in earlier rather than later, and that there are advantages throughout to having information, however it's acted upon, which is available if one is a participant and it's less available if one is not.