Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you both for attending before this committee.
The study of digital government is a huge topic. We began it last year and then back-burnered it, because of the Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and AggregateIQ study.
I was fascinated when I spent some time last year with Prime Minister Juri Ratas of Estonia. He showed me the card, the chip it contains and the fact that it's basically cradle-to-grave data. They've had a couple of breaches and glitches with their chip manufacturer, but it's a fascinating concept.
I'd like to ask both of you this. Whereas the Estonian digital government model is built on a fledgling democracy after the collapse of the Soviet Union, with a still compliant society that accepted the decision of its new government leaders to democratically impose this new digital government on the population, in our context, our wonderful Canadian Confederation has had, through 150 plus years, democratic challenges to government, with skepticism and cynicism in many ways, with regard to significant changes in government and referenda on any number of issues. I'm just wondering, for any government, whether federal, provincial, regional or municipal, in any of the contexts, how practical the pursuit of a single card with a chip à la Estonia is for Canada and Canadians.
Dr. Cavoukian, would you like to go first?