Thank you.
I'll start by thanking Ms. Clarke for the work she did at the Library of Parliament. I am co-chair of BILI, and we're still talking about digitization, so thank you for that.
I'm just going to go through what my thoughts were after I heard everybody, and then open it up for any comments.
Initially, I thought, “Wow, holy 1984“, and then I thought about the social contract that we have. I started thinking about how, if we do something like what Estonia did and we can ask for data only once.... Okay, the data's there once, but governments change. I thought about the implications of that. If you take that further, if there's a natural disaster and perhaps the servers are taken out, does that mean the government has just gone down? Then there's the legal implication of that, if you have to ask again for that information; in Estonia, they can't do that.
Then I started thinking about foreign attacks. Again, if the Trojan Horse comes and takes out the information and we have to continuously give our data...the privacy implications of that.
Then I started thinking about Amazon and how they host their own servers and have algorithms. There's the topic of whether it's going to be public or whether the government should have its own cloud-based data. The Internet of things is progressing, so is this something that we start to put resources behind, under infrastructure?
Then, again, I was thinking, “Okay, if it goes private, we have elections and governments change, and then you can start to track people”—as was pointed out.
I guess, along with all these thoughts, my question comes: If we do a cost-benefit analysis, do we need to go digital?
Chime in if you have any thoughts.