National Defence committee  I think that would be an interesting follow-up question for CSE officials, who have their own training systems within CSE, about the extent to which they are able to migrate those training systems out to other federal government departments and agencies and out to the private sec

National Defence committee  I think the simplest answer is that it's not clear in the international law, but I think Canada can take a lead. We've always taken a lead—or like to think we've taken a lead—in terms of international law developments, particularly at the International Criminal Court, and I woul

National Defence committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I would say that the media plays a huge role. Of course, the media as an institution has changed before our very eyes in the last couple of decades. There's the mainstream media, and there's everything else that's out there. I would say that the mainstream

National Defence committee  I'll be very brief and refer you to a recent Auditor General's report on Arctic surveillance. I think it made the very important point that the Canadian practice for procuring new satellite capabilities, particularly ones that can assist in monitoring our Arctic space, both for m

National Defence committee  Yes.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I'm going to surprise you, perhaps, by saying that there is one sector that we have not typically considered being part of critical infrastructure but that we need to consider in the future, and that's space. Increasingly, we're going to rely on space

National Defence committee  That's an interesting question. I don't really know the answer to it. I think for those adversaries that might be paying attention, it would be a thing to look at to see how well a country can respond or recover and where the vulnerabilities might be exposed in terms of critical

National Defence committee  That's a fascinating question. I think the thing that the Ukraine war reminds us of is that at the moment a lot of it looks like the First World War. There's always that element of brute force, of machine on machine, man on man and woman on woman in combat these days, which we m

National Defence committee  I thank you for the question. Mr. Kelly, we've seen a few examples of attacks on Canadian holders of data and private information over the years. We haven't seen crippling attacks at this stage, I would say. Probably the worst of the attacks that we've seen goes back a number of

National Defence committee  Mr. Chair, I'd answer that question by saying it would be interesting to hear from CFINTCOM, in particular, on that, because that's the organization within DND that is most affected by developments. What we've seen recently—it was highlighted in the defence “Strong, Secure, Enga

National Defence committee  Thank you. I think the answer to that question is that probably everything comes into play. I think the key challenges for CFINTCOM in particular in building its capabilities are partly technological—having access to the best kinds of systems they'll need—and also in terms of hu

National Defence committee  I couldn't really answer that question, to be honest. I'm not sure it's a huge price tag. It's just being able to identify the systems and acquire them. That is probably the key challenge.

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. I would say this is something that successive privacy commissioners have been particularly keen on pursuing—and not just federal ones but provincial ones, including the previous Ontario privacy commissioner—to try to build a better model for consent t

National Defence committee  I'm sorry that Aaron can't take that question. I'll try to answer for both of us to the best of my ability. I think the suggestion that Mr. Shull made about tax incentives is certainly one way forward. Regulation, at least of what we might determine to be critical data infrastru

National Defence committee  Thank you for the question. We should probably be worried most about adversaries who are deliberating conducting disinformation campaigns and interfering in democratic practices. A lot of our attention has been paid, since 2016, on the possibility of election interference, becau