I believe what you're referring to is our first recommendation for the federal government to adopt electronic invoicing in payments, which Public Works and Government Services has been working very hard to move forward.
The thinking behind the recommendation was that, based on our discussions with other countries, it takes leadership on the part of a significant player in the system to actually move the system forward to using digital payments, so electronic invoicing payments. The federal government certainly qualified in that regard.
The challenge, however, is that the infrastructure—the payment systems that the Canadian Payments Association operates, ACSS and LVTS—does not carry sufficient information for companies or governments to do reconciliations of their accounts receivable and payable. So many of the benefits, which we estimated directly at $8 billion annually—and for the economy overall, assuming that once the payment component had been automated, the service could be delivered electronically—that European countries in particular expect are equivalent to 1% to 2% of GDP, which for Canada means $16 billion to $32 billion in annual savings. It is a dramatic productivity improvement. It is also absolutely essential for Canada to become a full participant in the global digital economy.