Currently, we have agencies such as CSE and the cybersecurity centre that are beginning initiatives to foster and enable some hackfest festivals throughout the country, or conferences to that effect.
As an example, I was at the hackfest festival in Quebec City in November, which for the last 10 years has been fostered by CSE. They have a preview of what's going on with the latest and greatest hackers who are around to do the hacks through whatever technological means they have at the time. It's a pool of resources they can go to to get the best from the latest and greatest they can find. There is “Atlantic con” or Atlseccon, and there is another security conference in B.C., and others across the country. In this way, the agencies are active in figuring out what's happening on a real-time basis.
I believe that with CCC's being what it is today—I mean, it's alive—it will become more invested. That, for me, would be one positive point: having a government agency always be present in letting the community know that people are....
Minister Gould just disclosed at that hackfest festival in Quebec City that Canada wanted to have more hackers present to help the Government of Canada fend off any bad influences in the next election. That was a first. Everybody was stunned by the announcement. This was a positive point, by which the government was letting the community know that they wanted everybody to pitch in and do the best we can not to have a situation like what happened in the States.