Thank you very much, Chair.
I want to thank all of you for being here today.
I think we all should pay attention to what the Auditor General said in the third paragraph of her comments today. Given where we are in the world and what's going on, this statement, that “We found serious weaknesses at almost all levels in the processes set up to ensure the security of government information and assets entrusted to industry”, is a damning one. It would be at any time, but in this day and age I'm just blown away hearing this kind of thing. When I think about all the things the public is being told they are responsible for--that security is everything, that everybody has to be on guard, that we're all supposed to be practically looking over our shoulders--the fact that we have stuff like this going on is absolutely unbelievable and totally unacceptable.
So where do we start here? Let's start with Public Works and Government Services and the industrial security program. How long has that been around?