Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today. We certainly appreciate it.
I'm going to turn to Ms. Kayyem.
I want to read something that appeared in the Washington Examiner about your book, The Devil Never Sleeps. Here's what the article said:
[It] emphasizes that government and private-sector leaders should no longer focus all their attention and resources on disaster prevention.
Instead, they must learn how to plan accordingly and use all available tools to minimize the negative consequences when disaster does arrive.
You say that we should have anticipated Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and that we should have considered what would happen and how we would respond. You talk about focusing less on prevention.
I'd like you to talk more about that. We've heard from a number of experts who said that Canada was not adequately prepared to deal with threats or cyber threats, as compared with other Five Eyes countries, for instance.
How, then, should Canada have prepared, or be prepared going forward, for possible threats to its critical infrastructure from giants like Russia?