This is going to come across as a little bragging. These organizations all existed. Public Safety Canada, for example, had the Get Cyber Safe campaign ahead of time. At CSE we've had the IT security branch since the late forties or early fifties, primarily based on cryptography but growing into cybersecurity. Then, of course, Shared Services Canada had security operations. We brought all of those together, because we needed to start addressing this whole-of-economy thing.
In terms of what we've done, there's really been a collaborative approach with industry and partnerships. It's not, “We're the federal government and we're here to help.” Rather, it's, “We're the federal government and we want to work with you. You have knowledge and expertise as well.”
The second thing is that we've tried to make our advice and guidance practical. All our guidance, not only for small and medium-sized enterprises, is being rewritten to say, realistically, what should be done by a normal Canadian, not a computer scientist with a Ph.D. We wrote our advice and guidance to be almost inaccessible, and it's now accessible. I'm just really pleased to hear all the comments on the report. I really appreciate the feedback that it is accessible. It was written for every one of us to be able to read.
Third, we have done a lot on collaborative cyber defence, working with industry partners to say that we can solve this problem together. We bring certain expertise to the table. The Government of Canada has very good defences in place that we've built over the last decade. How can we apply those lessons learned? Canadian Shield is an example of that with the Canadian Internet Registration Authority. We do things with our telecommunications companies, critical infrastructures providers and of course the provinces and territories. That's an area where we're still developing our relationships, but we've certainly seen various provinces come to the table and say that we should work together. I can't think of a province or a territory where we don't have some ongoing relationship right now. One of the goals is to make sure there is a pan-Canadian approach.