That's actually an issue that's near and dear to my heart. One of the things that we face in Canadian telecommunications infrastructure—and some more detail could probably be provided by colleagues at Innovation, Science, and Economic Development—is that our infrastructure tends to run north-south because of the way the Internet and the way the interconnections happen. We tend to connect to our American neighbours quite extensively, whereas the east to west connections are quite thin. That is something where we have seen some investment.
The capacity to simply route across Canada might not be there. That's something that they would be better positioned to face. We really say, how do we protect this no matter where it routes?
One of the fundamental things about the Internet is that I could be sending you an email right now and it could go all the way around the world to get to you in your riding. It doesn't necessarily stay within Canada, just because of the way the Internet works. It routes anywhere. We also say that you need to take protections. Encryption is the best protection for that. It does prevent that compromise of confidentiality.
In reality there are some things around the Internet infrastructure that certainly would make cybersecurity better from not only a sovereignty perspective but also from a reliability perspective, and this would be something that we would be interested in seeing. There is a tremendous amount of investment from the private sector required. Innovation, Science and Economic Development would probably be better positioned to answer that question.