Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to the witnesses for being here this afternoon.
The unique digital identifier seems to be a way forward. However, I liked Mr. Anthony's rather moderate position that you have to take the time to do things right, for a number of reasons. First, we already have a digital service infrastructure available to Canadians, unlike Estonia, which started from scratch and went all the way to the unique digital identifier. However, the baby should not be thrown out with the bathwater.
We have already invested a lot of money to build digital infrastructures. Will we have to drop them and gradually replace them with the unique identifier, or will we be able to recover the base of the existing infrastructure? If we have to start from scratch, we will have to spend billions of dollars. Do you have any idea how challenging it is to provide this service to all Canadians across the country?
My questions are for everyone. I'm not sure who wants to answer first.