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Some members of parliament will be studying an age-old question this spring: how can Canada be more like Estonia?

Since the fall of the Soviet Union, the tiny Baltic country has turbocharged its government services, becoming the first nation to allow citizens to vote online and offering a slew of amenities through a single digital portal. Wired Magazine even deemed the country “E-stonia, the world’s most digitally advanced society.”

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Now, after releasing its final report on a data breach involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica in December, the House of Commons privacy committee will be looking at how Canada can follow the Estonian model on digital government services.

Committee chair and Conservative MP Bob Zimmer said he’s hopeful that members of the committee will be able to travel to Estonia to see it firsthand.

“I don’t know if the Estonian model is possible, but we’re definitely interested,” said Zimmer. “It’s got us very intrigued, how they preserve the sanctity of personal data. That’s always something we want to see.”