Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the response. The hon. parliamentary secretary might go one step further and talk about another dimension of electronic commerce, the privacy component or the security of information that is transferred from one point to another. I am concerned in particular with the encryption of information so it cannot be side tracked by someone getting into the communication inadvertently or by design, actually stealing the information. Then there is decryption which allows a person to get into that system and make the information sensible.
I am sure the hon. member knows that it is the way in which the information is coded and then decoded, which is really what we we are talking about here, that is fundamental to this whole business. Perhaps he could answer that question.