Foreign Affairs committee  Well, yes, I think it demonstrates that Vladimir Putin is very much in a bit of a panic mode about the sanctions. Dr. Schmitt mentioned earlier that Russia is no longer able to repair any of its military equipment. It's using parts from household appliances to patch up various di

Foreign Affairs committee  Thank you for that very important question. You may not like this answer, but I think we need to send more weapons to the Ukrainians, certainly Harpoon missiles, to deter Russian attacks on vessels leaving Odessa with that grain, the grain that is so desperately needed in so many

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and esteemed members of this committee. I will focus my remarks today on primarily the information operations aspect of foreign cyberwarfare and the threat it poses to our information environment and our national security. I will talk about the direct imp

National Defence committee  I think that we knew and that we could have anticipated one year ago that Russia would be intensifying their information operations in the context of the war in Ukraine. We also anticipated that they would try to erode Canadian public support for Ukraine. Those operations have on

National Defence committee  Absolutely. These campaigns against the Canadian Armed Forces have been ongoing since around 2015, when Prime Minister Harper ordered our forces to Ukraine and to Latvia as part of Operation Unifier and Operation Reassurance. With the operations in Latvia specifically—and this wa

National Defence committee  I'm not so sure. I mean, they were specifically targeting Latvians and Russian speakers in Latvia, but by targeting them, they were also targeting our forces. They were trying to manipulate the opinion of those local Latvians to turn them against our forces.

National Defence committee  Thank you for that question. It's a great question. I think we could be using our sanctions regime to greater effect to target Russian propagandists, the ones who are promoting these sorts of narratives that target Ukraine and that target Canadian interests as well. We should b

National Defence committee  Should—

National Defence committee  I question why Russia needs to have nearly 80 diplomats or perhaps more in Canada. That makes no sense to me. What are they doing here?

National Defence committee  The ones that are under the greatest threat from Russian cyber-operations are obviously those areas of critical infrastructure. We've seen over the past few months—at least a year—how our health sector has fallen prey to ransomware. A lot of the same organizations that engage i

National Defence committee  I can't specifically answer that. I'm more of an expert on disinformation. My understanding is that CSE is taking a closer look, but I can't specifically answer that question.

National Defence committee  I think that education is probably among the best things. Over the past several years, we've seen that it's really basic cyber-hygiene issues that have opened up some of these major institutions to the theat of cyber-attack. It's just about educating and making sure that those in

National Defence committee  That's a very good question. I would say yes, those attacks should be reported. I don't think we should be sweeping them under the rug. That way we'll have a better understanding of where the threat is.

National Defence committee  Again, I can't answer specifically to the relationship the federal government has right now with the provinces or territories with regard to cybersecurity.

National Defence committee  Absolutely. Russia has been doing this for a very long time, but China is becoming increasingly sophisticated. As far as threats go, I think we need to be keeping a very close eye on what China is doing. They also have, again, these developing capabilities, and I'm certain that C