Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, gentlemen, for being here.
When the Rogers system went down, I was on the way to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, for work meetings. It basically shut down all our critical infrastructure. You couldn't get gas. You couldn't go to an ATM machine. Nothing was working. Then I think about Atlantic Canada when Fiona hit. Gone are the days of having a newspaper on your doorstep. You couldn't get news. You couldn't pay a bill. You couldn't do anything when our critical infrastructure went down because of Fiona.
I highlight those two examples essentially to show the reliance on our critical infrastructure and how important it is to everybody in every neighbourhood across the country and around the world.
I guess I'll go to you, Mr. Rudolph, first.
How can the federal government along with provinces and territories better protect and defend this critical infrastructure that is so absolutely necessary in the lives of Canadians?