In order to move towards a more flexible design system, the plan is to “decouple” the detailed specs of the templates and patterns from the official "policy documents" - the Canada.ca Specifications and Canada.ca Content Style Guide.
The vision would then be to gradually improve each pattern and template and make into usable code (rather than pictures) with instructions. We could also have a separate library of "experimental patterns and templates", that we could open up to the whole community. We would need to eventually develop a process involving the community for a pattern to go from “experimental” to "approved".