Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I wouldn't mind chiming in, if you'll indulge me. Looking back at the example of the recent blockades in February, I would preface this by saying that I also have no intel further to Mr. Vinette's response, but I think another area worth examining is the effects of mi

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, maybe just to quickly go back to the previous question on whether certain sectors are prepared, further to my colleague's comments, this is top of mind for industry associations, such as the Canadian Forum for Digital Infrastructure Resilience, as well as Electricity C

Transport committee  Unfortunately, I'm not able to answer that question. I believe that's a question that's better directed to Transport Canada. That's not an area that falls under my purview.

Transport committee  I can attempt to answer that one, Mr. Chair. From the perspective of public safety and critical infrastructure resilience, one of the main vulnerabilities that we see across CI sectors are what I referred to in my opening remarks as the industrial control systems or the operatio

Transport committee  I'm sorry, Mr. Chair. Is that a question for Public Safety or the cyber centre?

Transport committee  Sure. Mr. Chair, I would add that budget 2019 allocated about $508 million, I think, for efforts to advance the updated or renewed cybersecurity strategy, which was shared among a number of departments and agencies for their respective cybersecurity efforts. I would also say t

Transport committee  I guess the answer would be that this is a growth industry. I say that facetiously in the sense that the scope of the challenge is growing. Significant investments have been made. As my colleague at the cyber centre said, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure security and r

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, I can elaborate on that to some extent. We've done work on ports with respect to some of the resilience assessment tools that we have. We've done physical security assessments at 14 facilities in Canada. We've only done cyber-assessments at four facilities. If you're

Transport committee  Mr. Chair, given the operational nature of the question, I would probably have to defer to my colleague at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, just based on the type of activities they monitor and the role they have there. I'm afraid I can't speak to that in any detail.

Transport committee  Absolutely. We have two programs. One that I mentioned is the regional resilience assessment program, or RRAP, as we call it. There is a physical security and a cybersecurity component to that. These are programs that, in the case of the RRAP, go out to all 10 CI sectors across

Transport committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. I'm very pleased to be here. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the Government of Canada's approach to critical infrastructure security and resilience. I will start by going back in time a little bit, to 2009, when