I think it matters a great deal.
Do we have the backbone or the intercontinental connections? I find it difficult to answer that question, because I think it's an answer that requires two parts: one dealing with governments generally, and one dealing with the non-governmental sector.
I think that insofar as governments are concerned, we have very close alliances with the Five Eyes—the United States in particular—and there's an immense sharing of information. I would argue that it's pretty effective, notwithstanding the dysfunction I was talking about.
When I was still working, the approach taken to deal with some of these issues.... It's a bit like talking about cancer. That's not particularly helpful. I notice that some of you have your cancer pins on. Talking generally about cancer is not particularly helpful, because the cure for cancers goes to the 130-odd kinds of cancer. I find that talking generally about cyber is not often very helpful. You have to break it down into its component parts.
We used to divide up the Canadian economy into strategic sectors, such as telecoms, financial, nuclear.... There were 11 or 12 of them. Quite honestly, I think the connections they have with their home offices—with each other in Canada and abroad—vary. For example, our nuclear sector is pretty well organized, and I think the general view, as sectors go, is that financial sector is not doing badly. Some of the others are less so.
I'm not trying to avoid answering your question, but I think it's difficult to just give you a yea or a nay. I think there's no one entity—government or non-governmental—that's responsible. It's just as things have evolved.