Madam Speaker, my colleague brought up tourism, and I want to talk to him about air travel.
On page 74 of the budget, there is an announcement of $105 million over five years for something known as the “known traveller digital identity pilot project”. A Google search of known traveller digital identity takes us to a World Economic Forum document, where it is called the “known traveller digital identity (KTDI) concept”. It talks about things like attestations of citizenship, educational degrees and so on, including vaccination for viral disease.
I am wondering if my colleague could expand on just what the government is investing tax dollars for on this front?