Public Safety committee  The first recommendation would be to the government, as a player within critical infrastructure, to get it right, to take the series of reports on this subject and to tiger team those reports and look at how we're going to better protect the government infrastructure. As I menti

Public Safety committee  Absolutely. Thank you for that question. Having a son in Saskatchewan, I really light up to the agricultural sector, because when you drive around rural Saskatchewan it's evident. It's evident when you're looking at modern-day farming. I would say that modern-day agriculture on

Public Safety committee  Sure. I would certainly support mandatory reporting for select critical infrastructure players, and what I mean by that is when you look at the 10 sectors within critical infrastructure, they're very large, agriculture being one of them. Are we going to ask for mandatory reportin

Public Safety committee  Absolutely, and thank you. I was afraid you were going to ask me that question. I may give a bit of a different perspective on this, having spent most of my federal career within that community. With all due respect, I wouldn't necessarily accuse the community of stonewalling. H

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the questions. On the amount of money that has been provided to CSE, I would look for specific outcomes in cybersecurity and in Canada—specific outcomes in the fields in which they play, which is just about everywhere in Canada.

Public Safety committee  I think we want to be very outcomes-based on the spend. I also think we want to be very careful to build our organization for today's and tomorrow's threats, not last year's threats.

Public Safety committee  Thank you.

Public Safety committee  We can talk about the responsibility for regulation. My preference is not to overly regulate. Once again going to small and medium-sized businesses, do they have the resources to respond to regulation? It is potentially more of a supportive environment, communication environmen

Public Safety committee  Thank you for your question. There are quite a few elements to that question. Number one, historically—or when I began my career in government—when we looked at these threats, we certainly looked to nation-states, to the Russian threat and so on. It was handled in government, bu

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much. Good morning. I'm honoured to be here this morning speaking on behalf of my organization, Optiv. Our level of preparedness to the wide range of threats posed by Russia deserves this dialogue, our collective engagement and our commitment to focus on hardenin