Fax machines at city hall will soon go the way of teletype machines, pneumatic tube transit systems and other antique modes of inter-office communication starting in 2022 ...

This shouldn't be too much of an effort, right? Surely, they only have just a few of those machines lying around.

... 1,355 fax lines currently in use in Toronto ...

Oops. So, are they planning to stop using fax altogether?

Not exactly:

The plan is to transition the entire system to a virtual fax solution

Why?

The plan deals with privacy issues in emailing scanned documents, or sending private documents to an office fax machine.