Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to start with you, Mr. Vickery. Certainly, the establishment of digital government in Canada will be very different from Estonia's, given that we have provinces and territories, municipal governments, regional governments and the federal government and there are quite clearly defined lines of authority in terms of who has jurisdiction or not.
Even in the establishment of early forms of limited digital government.... Let's say the Canadian government were to look at only the areas of its jurisdiction in relation to the entire population of the country. One would expect that there would be something of a gold rush by companies looking to be the creators, the administrators or the partners, if you will, in creating such a huge digital operation.
The Canadian Bankers Association, or at least the president of the association, has suggested that banks are the most trusted handlers of personal data. They have two-factor logins and they're more responsible, say, than the Equifaxes or other collectors of data, the data brokers, and certainly more responsible than companies such as Alphabet, Google, Facebook and so forth.
I'm just wondering what sorts of guidelines you would suggest to the Government of Canada if it were to set up digital government. What sorts of companies would you recommend to be on the inside in the creation and the maintenance and guarantor of security?