Very quickly, to Madam Lapointe's comment from earlier, I believe procurement is a security risk in Canada. It is too slow. The people involved aren't necessarily trained in the way they should be, especially in the area of security.
I also wanted to add to what Jessica had said about ownership control and access matters. We have the issue of the CLOUD Act. We have more people recognizing that Canadian data, if it touches anything with respect to the United States...and, of course, we are very aware that we're never quite certain where the United States is right now. Also, hardware is software and software is hardware. The possibility of not having control of not only your telecommunication systems but your digital infrastructure, which is connected to your energy systems, which is connected to your transportation systems.... If any one of those goes down, we are at immense risk.
Many of us remember when the Rogers network went down. That was one big telecommunications company, and almost every single customer on all the other networks had no access to the economy or to telecommunications.
We are literally extremely vulnerable. I want to use the words “tech security”, because it's more than cybersecurity.
