Government Operations committee  I'll go quickly. You might also want to take a look at Russian technologies. It's a little less clear in the cybersecurity space, the lines between the public and private sector in that country, but there's definite risk. We're seeing some of our allies starting to analyze and c

Government Operations committee  I would say those are just a small sampling of the programs. I will say, however, that the non-tariff considerations that favour American SMEs are prevalent in the core of their procurement, besides those economic development programs that use procurement. This is core to their p

Government Operations committee  Thanks for that really thoughtful question. I'm not in the bio space, but I think the lessons I draw from experience dealing with similar organizations like DARPA in the U.S., on more of the law enforcement or national security side of technology versus the medical security side

Government Operations committee  Thanks. I appreciate the question. I'll get into the nitty-gritty. When we develop a piece of software, it is not static, as I mentioned. It's a 1.0. We have a road map that's very tight and, I would say, within a six-month window. There's still a road map even beyond that for u

Government Operations committee  To me, when someone says “strategy” in a public sector context, what I believe is that it has to be horizontal in government, not vertical. What I see being called “strategy” is that they've secured this specific thing. You know, this X-ray machine meets the needs of the security

Government Operations committee  Thanks very much, Mr. Green. The last thing I was saying is that, in these economic development programs that give grants or low-interest loans, the government should start taking the technology being built by Canadians and try to find out whether there are users in the governme

Government Operations committee  That was our business, and I'll tell you, we're not looking for any handouts here. However, I'll give you one example of the challenges that the Government of Canada faces in our software realm: investigating the extremely fast-growing issue of child sexual exploitation online, a

Government Operations committee  On the specific Nuctech stuff, I'll defer to my colleagues, but on the cybersecurity piece, the one thing I'll say, and I'll be very general here, is that, in human history, as long as people have things of value, there are unscrupulous people looking to try to get them. Digital

Government Operations committee  Thanks Ben. I'll nuance it. I don't believe it has to favour. I think we have to be very analytical in the outcomes we want. We want to see a successful business sector for the productivity of our country. Some of the facts we have to get on the record here is that Canada spends

Government Operations committee  In the security space specifically, which is what I will talk about, because that's what I know best, I think we have to emulate and also create our own things that meet our own values and systems. I will say that security clearance is one big piece. I will say that in other lea

Government Operations committee  I think a proper study on the number of ITBs that have actually been deployed for the specific-purpose or general-purpose technology that's being offset with a foreign piece of technology would be good. I think it's sometimes burdensome to force companies to try to find something

Government Operations committee  I think it really depends on the type of technology being procured and where the security risk assessment is done. I think other witnesses have talked about leading agencies within the government context that have those technical skills to review the nature of a procurement and w

Government Operations committee  Maybe I could provide some...not to the specific, but to the general question being asked. As a Canadian company trying to sell in 94 different countries, as you move up market in security, significant questions come from foreign governments, such as how many nationals you emplo

Government Operations committee  I'll jump in here and just say that these are all really great initiatives, and cyber is a real problem, but we also need to have a scaled understanding of the challenge and then work from there. I'm going to one industry report. McAfee, a global player in cyber, has done indepe

Government Operations committee  Thanks very much, Ben. Thanks to members of the committee. Magnet is a Waterloo-based cybersecurity company that provides digital investigation software solutions that are used by over 4,000 police, national security and other public and private entities with investigative aut