National Defence committee  Good afternoon. Thank you very much for your question. I would reinforce that our budget is significant. It's almost $800 million and a 12% increase over last year. I mentioned earlier that some of that funding is for cryptographic equipment, but also to increase the security a

National Defence committee  Thank you. I would note that, in the CSE portion of the budget for this year, we have a submission for a new year in a multi-year funding proposal to modernize aging cryptographic equipment and infrastructure, which will allow us to safeguard classified information, including in

National Defence committee  CSE has a mandate to collect foreign intelligence and also a long track record of supporting military operations with CAF, so that money has been dedicated to analytic resources to produce intelligence that can help Government of Canada decision-makers use foreign intelligence to

National Defence committee  It is predominantly based on analytic resources that are required to do that work, so people.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I would note that CSE and CAF have a very long-standing partnership of almost eight decades of collaboration. CAF's cyber-authorities were laid out in the “Strong, Secure, Engaged” policy, and CSE has its authorities laid out in the CSE Act. We have

National Defence committee  As you know, CSE has a mandate to conduct foreign intelligence, and a large part of that is looking at foreign cyber-threats. I've also just mentioned that we try to decant the knowledge we have into our public threat assessments. The last national cyber-threat assessment highl

National Defence committee  Shall I take that question?

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for the question. It's very front of mind. CSE's mandate is first and foremost in cyberspace. Whether we're collecting foreign intelligence through cyberspace or we're helping to protect systems through our cybersecurity mandate, it is our raison d’être, so th

National Defence committee  Our mandate exists across the entire country. We have a mandate for defending Canadian government systems. I feel like there is some more work that needs to be done there. However, the defences that we have built so far are quite dynamic and resilient. We are really working on a

National Defence committee  As you know, the CSE has a very significant mandate when it comes to cybersecurity. We are very interested in telecommunications security and have been working with the other partners in the government on the proposals that will inform a decision for the government.

National Defence committee  The government's decision will be forthcoming.

Canada-China Relations committee  I'll assume that's directed at me, unless somebody else wants to weigh in. I can't really speak to the specifics of your question, but I can confirm that disinformation and misinformation are very serious matters and we are looking at them very carefully.

Canada-China Relations committee  I would say first of all that we were very pleased to hear the reports of Facebook disrupting the campaigns that were directed against Uighurs around the world and [Technical difficulty—Editor] in Canada. It's important to note that CSE does not have a mandate to direct any of

Canada-China Relations committee  It takes a very broad group of different players in the private sector and in government to monitor all of this space and to work together. Facebook plays a very specific role, and when it takes down these kinds of campaigns, we learn about it usually at the same time as everybod

Canada-China Relations committee  CSE is not a regulator. We do not comment, endorse or ban specific technologies or specific companies, but we publish advice that helps Canadians to choose wisely and to understand how an app works, where their data resides, how to turn on the security features, how to update tho