Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I can't help but make the connection between cyber attacks and the pandemic that we're currently experiencing.
Mr. McGuinty, as you said, China and Russia have been engaged in many cyber attacks in recent months. This includes not only information theft, but also disinformation campaigns. For example, in Europe, hackers stole and altered data on the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. The European Medicines Agency confirms that confidential emails were stolen and posted on the Russian dark web.
Canada is a G7 country and will hopefully become a vaccine-producing country in the near future. We can assume that this isn't our last pandemic.
How can we counter these cyber attacks, which directly affect and threaten public health?