This is based on our consultations with our legal services. For a student loan agreement, for example, if it is contested in a court of law, their advice to us—to ensure that the loan agreement is considered a valid loan agreement—was that it might not only be useful but also perhaps necessary to have it specified in the legislation that the Government of Canada can enter into agreements electronically. Then that kind of agreement would stand up in a court of law. If not, they were not sure whether or not that would be the case.
On November 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.