Thank you.
The last part of your answer is perhaps germane to the question I am going to ask.
Let me go back to proposed section 24 that we discussed earlier, and to the issue of information on infrastructure. Proposed paragraph 24(1)(b) reads as follows:
24(1)(b) acquiring, using, analysing, retaining or disclosing infrastructure information for the purpose of research and development…
I will let my colleagues read it in its entirety.
Further down, in the definitions, it says:
24(5) … Information relating to (a) any functional component, physical or logical, of the global information infrastructure; or (b) events that occur during the interaction between two or more devices that provide services on a network…
I would like to be sure I understand correctly. In light of the power you are being granted under the bill, what sort of infrastructure exercise would be conducted to help you do that kind of study or analysis on the sustainability and security of the network? I understand that your mandate deals with foreign threats, as you told me earlier, but you will inevitably be working on the Canadian network.
Can you give me an example of what would be done under the power granted in proposed section 24?