The bill does not refer specifically to critical infrastructure, but I think it makes reference to non-governmental systems, which are tantamount to critical infrastructure, because as you say, our global information infrastructure is made up of public and private enterprises.
In that space, CSE, which is currently focused on defending and blocking activities on the government infrastructure, is limited right now to providing advice and guidance only to critical infrastructure owners in a way such that the information is available to the general public.
In this regard, Bill C-59 opens up CSE to take the expertise that has been developed—the tools, the capabilities.... In fact, some of that capability has been exposed to critical infrastructure owners in the form of a tool called “Assembly Line”. We've put it out there. It's a tool that was developed in-house, but we've made it available to others who can use it to help triage and understand malware that might be affecting their systems.
CSE would be able to go even further with this legislation to helping critical infrastructure owners who request our assistance and whom the minister has designated as eligible to receive assistance from CSE.