There is no doubt that Canada and its allies face an increasing degree of threat from hostile state actors or hostile non-state actors out there. We work very closely with and are part of the National Defence portfolio, as you've mentioned. In the recent defence policy review, the military has declared its interest in working in the cyber domain and developing a framework and a platform for that. You'll note as well that the bill is set up in a way that would allow CSE to assist the Canadian Armed Forces under our assistance mandate, so that we would be able to work more closely with them, depending on the conditions and circumstances of activities that would need to be taken. There is a potential for us to work more closely in delivering capabilities for them on the military level.
On February 13th, 2018. See this statement in context.