What's extremely important is the work being done by DIACC on the pan-Canadian trust framework, PCTF. For a lot of the questions that have been asked so far by this committee and the things we have spoken to—privacy, data security, standards that operate across borders, transparency of governance, open standards—the intent is to have them be worked out and put in place through the pan-Canadian trust framework.
In terms of timeline, the anticipated completion of the trust framework is next year. There are discussion drafts that are being produced right now for public comment, so targeted for 2020.
That's a crucial first step. The standards include privacy by design, so there are 10 principles underlying a digital ID ecosystem.
The other great thing about the DIACC pan-Canadian trust framework process is that you have different levels of government at the table, different private sector players at the table, and technology companies that could help build a solution from a tech perspective. That creates the interoperability.
On principle, the federal government is in the process of developing, or is intending to develop, with, I think it's Sign-in Canada, its own digital ID solution, but you have SecureKey's digital ID solution, which also is intended to meet what the PCTF will look like. That allows the federal government, for instance, or a provincial government, to say that you can use either. If you go to New Brunswick right now, where they're running pilot projects on digital ID, you can log in to the New Brunswick pilot project by entering either your New Brunswick government-issued digital ID or your SecureKey Concierge digital ID.
To me, that is the immediate next step. Another broader part of it, where the Canadian Bankers Association has been playing a role, is just socializing the concept, ensuring, as one of the MPs just said, that Canadians feel safe. They need to understand the product, because Canadians hear about cyber breaches all the time. That's also the educational and promotional part of digital ID.