Yes, that's correct. It's the plumbing structures. The government gives you a physical identity in a driver's licence and a passport, but they've abdicated that role, essentially, in the digital realm. As we move to more online services, the government has to provide some form of identity or else corporate actors will do it, and it comes with a social media account or some kind of Airbnb rating.
The other thing is we have to have data-sharing standards. I can assure you that the folks in Treasury Board want to see these things, but it needs pressure from your committee to say to Finance that this is a priority.
I need you to understand that these are very small dollars. We're talking $10-million, $20-million or $30-million antes to make us safe and strong in this digital evolution, but you won't do it if you don't understand that it's important. That goes to that whole realm of what is called “digital policy infrastructure”, which we haven't paid attention to in 20 years.