'While enhanced broader data sharing will now be explored and undertaken, to reflect capacities and needs in each of our jurisdictions, individual personal health information cannot and will not be exchanged.'
Stoodley noted that her province has already lined up meetings with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's federal government to discuss their digital ID pilot project.
With Canadian authorities creating the infrastructure required to implement a digital identification network, some are concerned that a social credit system similar to the one in China is just around the corner.