I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting No. 9 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities.
Today’s meeting is taking place in a hybrid format, pursuant to the House Order of November 25, 2021. Members are attending in person in the room and remotely using the Zoom application.
I would like to take this opportunity to remind all participants in this meeting that screenshots or taking photos of your screen is not permitted.
Given the ongoing pandemic situation, I encourage all committee members and witnesses to follow the recommendations of the health authorities, as well as the Board of Internal Economy directive of January 28, 2022.
As chair, I will be enforcing these measures as best I can for the duration of the meeting, and I thank members in advance for their co-operation.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Thursday, March 3, 2022, the committee is meeting to study Canada's preparedness to respond to Russian threats to Canadian waters, ports and airspace.
Colleagues, appearing before us today we have from the Canada Border Services Agency, Denis Vinette, vice-president, travellers branch; from the Communications Security Establishment, Rajiv Gupta, associate head, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security; and from the Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, Ryan Schwartz, acting director general, critical infrastructure directorate, national and cybersecurity branch.
For the second part of our meeting, we have from BlackBerry, Dr. John de Boer, senior director, government affairs and public policy, Canada.
I would like to welcome all of our witnesses to the committee today. Thank you for your time.
I will turn the floor over to our witnesses for their opening remarks.
Mr. Denis Vinette, the floor is yours.