Thank you to all of you for being here today.
Mr. Fadden, most of my questions will go to you.
You're here as an individual today and you have so much expertise in the realm of national security. I do want to ask you first about CSE and the proposal to allow CSE to carry out offensive cyber capabilities.
Last week we heard from Ray Boisvert, who, as you well know, is the former assistant director of CSIS, who told us that “the best defence always begins with a good offence.” In his view, when more than five dozen countries are rumoured to be developing active cyber capabilities, that means we must develop capabilities to respond, and in some cases that includes outside our borders.
You're nodding, so I take it that you agree with this position. In his commentary to the committee last week, Mr. Boisvert went even further and made the point that we're actually behind, that this should in fact already have happened. Can you delve into this?