The BEP site will provide information on government business assistance programs, taxation obligations and record keeping requirements, employer obligations including workplace relations and occupational health and safety, customs requirements and intellectual property strategies. The BEP facility will also offer resources in such areas as education and training, environment, importing and exporting, investment, legal issues, licensing and registrations and statistics. A ministerial initiative on EC is shortly to be launched in Canada, its first product will be a discussion paper centred on issues involved including interfaces, seamless interoperability, standards etc. There has been much discussion about alternatives to PKI and the conclusion was that there was no real alternative. Canadian provinces are implementing PKI for some EC applications.
Canadian citizens can already make some tax payments electronically.
Ten major banks in France are using the SET protocol. They do not, however, see these experiments as implementation projects. They are seeking the wide publication and understanding of public procurement rules. This will be followed by implementation of electronic calls for tender as a first stage of implementation of EC in procurement. The 2 nd stage will be to facilitate electronic submission of tenders.