In terms of catching up on the B-to-B payment side, I think that the recommendation the task force made for the federal government to take the lead is still valid.
Essentially it's like adopting the fax machine. A fax machine isn't valuable unless the people you're dealing with also have a fax machine. So you really need a leader to move adoption of the technology forward.
The government, along with the provinces—in fact the provinces have a lot more transactions than the federal government—really needs to get behind the shift to digital payments and automated processing of their own receivables and payables.