That is clearly an issue of policy, because it comes into the whole question of the national identification card, which was studied and discussed at length a while ago.
One of the issues that we've brought up here is the whole policy around the social insurance number. When it was introduced, the government deemed it to be kind of a file identifier and nothing more than that, largely for income tax purposes. Today this is still kind of the attitude of government vis-à-vis the social insurance number.
Over the years, the use of the social insurance number has increased significantly, not only within the federal government, but also in the private sector. We've strongly recommended in our past audits that the government needed to look at the policy again, regarding its appropriate use within government.
They did their own study in 2003 and essentially came to the same conclusions. They started some work, but then people told us they moved to other priorities, and they're saying the policy won't be updated until 2008.
We think that it's an essential part of this whole question, because depending on the what the abuse is that could lead to a renewal process for cards, or some kind of—