National Defence committee  Again that's a very good question, in the sense of getting a perspective of what it would look and feel like to deploy as military personnel from a digital perspective. As Rich said earlier, when we get ready to deploy our forces into these areas of the world, a threat assessme

National Defence committee  I would only want to interject to make sure that it was clear to the committee that the Wi-Fi capability supported by the navy on those platforms is not connected to the corporate network in any way, shape, or form. It provides access to the Internet for the men and women on boar

National Defence committee  That's an excellent question, Mr. Chair. I'll ask Commodore Feltham to speak to that.

National Defence committee  If I may follow up on that, earlier a colleague asked a similar question, and I wrote a note, which I want to contribute to the answer, around the reserve force and how exciting that is for us. In my interactions with industry—we're significantly engaged in areas in which we ar

National Defence committee  I wouldn't want to have misrepresented the fact that in a classified environment with the right situation, with all the conditions met, a classified conversation in certain key areas would not be a richer dialogue between committee and us as witnesses. What I would simply offer i

National Defence committee  You're right. Should the questions—

National Defence committee  No, so I should thank you for that, Mr. Chair.

National Defence committee  It is. We come here to have a valuable exchange of dialogue so that we can engage with you and help you do the very valuable work that you do to help the department situate itself inside the government, so with that, I thank you. I wouldn't want to leave you with the perspect

National Defence committee  Thank you.

National Defence committee  Indeed, we will come back with as much information as is available to us with respect to the MDA project. They're probably quite excited about it and have more details than we would, on the periphery, watching that happen. With respect to what we would refer to in our terms as f

National Defence committee  Let me open, and then I will ask Commodore Feltham to comment on potential policy gaps internationally in cyber engagement or the rules of engagement, if you will, for cyber. I can tell you that in my experience we've realized the reality that every nation has a different set of

National Defence committee  The impact of the proposed CSE Act is more relevant in its broad terms to their operations than to ours. We have dependencies on them to move into cyber operations and be able to work with them in a more integrated fashion than we can today in operations. I want to leave you th

National Defence committee  As I said, we have terrific relationships with our allies. I can tell you that those I work with regularly don't all share the same construct of governance, of design of our governance, when it comes to where cyber capabilities rest inside of government. I can tell you how Canada

National Defence committee  The concept of whether we're good, better, or best among our allies is an opinion. It is what we have established in Canada. For us, our abilities and our current design and portfolios are deemed to be very effective in cyber-defence. It has worked very well in signals intelligen

National Defence committee  Let me clarify the perception of our relationship with the Canadian Communications Security Establishment that I would like to leave you with. We have abilities in technology that we have needed to operate in the past. They are of great value to us, but somewhat limited. Before