National Defence committee  Thank you for the questions. I would say the alliance we have with the Five Eyes, especially from the Communications Security Establishment, is rock solid. Interoperability, from that perspective, is a big part of the foundation of how we work with the Five Eyes. Because we sh

National Defence committee  I'm happy to say that the main estimates did provide an injection of funds, in particular with regard to Operation Unifier. That's in addition to the budget funding that was provided to us in 2022, to proceed with foreign cyber operations, and support what we need to do. We do ha

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I would just add that since 2017, the CSE has been putting out publications with regard to threats to democratic institutions. One thing we clearly outline in the guidance that we provided to democratic institutions around general elections is that foreign interference could ha

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. As was mentioned, we can't speak to the specifics, but what we can say is that when we become aware of what a cybercriminal's traits look like or what their profile is and that's something we are able to declassify, we definitely want to s

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. I'd like to confirm that I understood your question correctly. You're asking me to comment on what I've seen, based on my work. Is that correct?

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. What I can tell you is that the Communications Security Establishment Act authorizes us to shut things down using the tools available to us, to protect ourselves and to make sure that our systems can defend themselves against those threats. As menti

Public Safety committee  Thank you very much for the question. I really do appreciate that. You're right that we have had to look at things differently. We've had to change the way in which we work. We're really proud of the fact that we've had to do this categorical shift on this aspect of having to u

Public Safety committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair, for the question. I really do appreciate it. We actually have a great cyber partnership program with industry, with academia and with the social media organizations. I'm actually going to hand this question over to the head of the cyber centre, because he

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, can I just get the question repeated again?

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. What we have seen is that there have been ongoing threats from Russia with regard to their cyber capabilities, and they've demonstrated a willingness to use them. Since early January or mid-January, we've put out several bulletins, and we'r

Public Safety committee  I can't comment in terms of things that are not at a level that I can discuss in this unclassified environment; however, as I mentioned, we continue to closely work with our allies and monitor what is going on in the global world with regard to hostile state actors. As we state

Public Safety committee  Thank you for the question. Of course, we'd like Canada to be immune from cyber-threats. Our agency's goal is to try to ensure that all organizations and all Canadians are aware that they need to be mindful of how they manage their data. As you mentioned, we're seeing an increa

Public Safety committee  If I may, Mr. Chair, there is only thing I would add. CSE being the national foreign intelligence signals intelligence program, we provide intelligence so that senior decision-makers are able to get some of that insight into the activities, the motivations, as well as the capab

Public Safety committee  Hello and bonjour. Thank you, Mr. Chair and members of the committee, for the invitation to appear today to discuss Canada's security posture in relation to Russia. My name is Caroline Xavier. My pronouns are she, her and elle. I am the new chief of the Communications Security E