Madam Chair, I'm going to use my remaining time to ask Professor Barker a quick question, seeing as he's the expert on computers and data repositories that safeguard confidentiality.
In May 2022, the University of Ottawa released the following publication:
How Canada can adapt to a deteriorating security environment, a report by the task force on national security of the graduate school of public and international affairs.
In it, the authors urge the government to create a government-wide, top-secret cloud, as many of our allies have done in various forms. This cloud would include vast amounts of data stored by every department and agency, providing a concrete way of protecting the data in the event of an attack.
What do you think of the idea of creating a top-secret cloud to store confidential government information? Would that be a good way to protect against cyber-attacks?