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The reason digital ID is so dangerous is because of how it can become the single point of identification for every transaction: medical, travel, payment, age of majority, voting, everything. Who has access to that information and how can it be used to direct behaviour? There’s a reason we have different passwords for different organizations and functions. The border guard and Canada Revenue Agency have no business knowing my medical history. My political views aren’t my bank’s business and so on. It’s very easy to start limiting access or imposing punitive measures on many levels through digital ID. We saw how government went after the bank accounts of people who made donations to a protest that the government didn’t like. We saw how a government leader literally said that protests that try to change policies are concerning. If a corrupt or tyrannical government decides to target or misuse power, it will have immediate all-encompassing consequences for individuals whose lives are on a digital ID. Why in God’s name would anyone trust government to manage this well after everything we’ve learned about the identification systems used during the Holocaust? I mean, are we trying to create an impossible situation where no one can buy or sell anything without the mark? Yeah that’s going to go over well with the “conspiracy theorists.” I don’t know how any sane person, left or right, could want to give government more access to our information and control over our lives. Government should only exist for the practical use of the citizens and its power must be very limited. Many people don’t agree with the values of many of our representatives and our constitution is there to protect our individual rights. Sunak in Britain is pushing digital ID for the G7. We should be worried. I like cash over digital currency too. It’s a relief to know that if the shit hits the fan people can sell their possessions without a storefront. I don’t want to lose the lemonade stand economy. If I want to do digital payment there are already lots of options from etransfer to Apple Pay to PayPal. I certainly don’t want government having access to people’s money. They will abuse power at some point. They always do.

We also don't need our own country, the British will make our laws for us. Why bother moving out of the house either? Mom will cook me dinner and do my laundry until i'm retired. Why do I even bother wiping my own bum? If we're attacked by a much more powerful country, sure our NATO allies can help, that's what the alliance is there for. But its a balloon. We allowed another country's military aircraft into our sovereign borders to destroy a balloon for us, and in front of our biggest rival. This government is utterly incapable of defending Canada, proven over and over. Maybe, for once in our history, Canada can stand on its own two feet. We are conditioned by hundreds of years of history not to be.

It's interesting when you read the stories that look beneath the surface of this government's pious pronouncements to see the authoritarianism beneath. Not that surprising from a man who admires China's authoritarianism. These consultations are being marketed like they’re evidence of democracy in action, but that’s not exactly the case when you look under the hood. Previous expert consultations released in July consisted of a handpicked panel that broadly agreed with a censorship regime; further, these experts were paid for their input. In a previous round of online consultations last spring, which also pertained to media regulation, Canadian Heritage deliberately filtered out feedback from individuals who didn’t agree with the Liberals’ “National Action Plan on Combating Hate.” The feedback survey at the heart of these consultations was altered to prevent dissenters, labelled “non-allies” by one public servant, from completing the full set of questions. As has been the habit of Trudeau and his party the new online censorship laws seem primarily designed to appeal to various ethnic identity groups need for 'protection' from 'harm'. And as usual, there's the Liberal party both exaggerating the danger and presenting itself as the glowing white knight there to protect them from the evil white community they must all fear and despise. But once this law is in place how many arrests will we see? Something similar to the UK, perhaps, were thousands are arrested every year for social media comments? Well, if it helps the Liberals get more votes I suppose they figure that's more than worth the cost. https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-trudeau-liberals-want-to-treat-adults-like-kids-with-online-harms-bill

The digital IDs are a tool for government control and compliance as are so called 15 minute cities . OTTAWA — The federal government has presented a new health-care funding offer that would see Ottawa shift $196 billion to the provinces and territories over the next 10 years in exchange for commitments to massively upgrade health-care data collection and digital medical records https://ca.news.yahoo.com/trudeau-present-health-care-offer-090000116.html

This is no laughing matter. Remember syringe-happy exsperts ready to send you to bimonthly rounds of experimental injections with entirely unknown long-term outcome? Government pays to unknown, unelected, handpicked, lacking any democratic transparency or accountability obscure "experts" to justify what it wants to do and out of your pocket. Is it a pattern already? How worried should we be? Xi can do that as easily.

Some of us and more every day won't play boiling frog to you and yours. We're jumping out of the pot. Don't like it? We don't care.

It's interesting to learn how these so called 'expert consultation panels' are selected. Instead of 'handpicked, filtered out, paid for, and those who broadly agree with the consorship regime', we might be far better off selecting ordinary folks at random from a telephone directory... "I am obliged to confess that I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Not, heaven knows, because I hold lightly the brainpower or knowledge or generosity or even the affability of the Harvard faculty: but because I greatly fear intellectual arrogance, and that is a distinguishing characteristic of the university which refuses to accept any common premise." ..... William F. Buckley

And is that done with no judicial involvement?

Yeah, right. Like Democrats will EVER allow legal elections. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jim-jordan-criticized-saying-only-americans-should-vote-american-elections Rep. Jim Jordan criticized online after saying 'only Americans should vote in American elections' If you today believe non citiizens (BETTER KNOWN AS ILLEGAL ALIENS) should be allowed to vote, YOU ARE ADMITTING THAT JOE BIDEN DID NOT WIN THE ELECTION WITH LEGITIMATE LEGAL VOTES. And if you don't like this TRUTH, bite my ass

Yukon . . . . Trapper Jack . . . . shoot it down with his old Cooey .22 repeater. Ooops! it might be on the Restricted Firearms List.

No, Biden phoned him and told him what was going to happen. Lol

It sure is. You certainly need to have "the talk" when you have a kid with schizophrenia. Fortunately the 6 cops who had to deal with my son didn't kill him when they arrested him. Maybe because he's white but more likely because he was just lucky that day. He's an adult now and doing quite well for himself but a parent's fear is never far away

https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/japanese-researchers-sue-the-government-for-hiding-inconvenient-truths-about-the-jab/ “Take a look at the 65-69 and 70-79 age groups. Surprisingly, the number of new infections or positive cases per 100,000 people is four times higher for people who have been vaccinated twice, compared with unvaccinated people… “However, in last year’s data, the Health Ministry deleted all that information. In fact, vaccination has been recommended based on the explanation that vaccination does not prevent infection, but vaccination prevents severe illness and reduces the mortality rate. “Based on the data published by the Advisory Board in September 2021, the basis for recommending vaccination for all ages should no longer exist anymore. Despite that fact, the Health Ministry has pushed ahead the vaccination.”

Shaking hands was one of the things that put Trump off runnning for public office for years. He was more focused on the germ angle, though.

"Alberta has joined Saskatchewan as the only Canadian provinces opposed to implementing a national health-care “digital ID.” Premier Danielle Smith tweeted Friday afternoon that she stands firmly with Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe in protecting private health information. I agree and stand firmly with @PremierScottMoe in protecting Albertans’ private health information." Premier Smith says no to national health-care 'Digital ID'- Rebel News These are the only Premiers that have any brains on this digital ID. I guess the rest of them don't care or are in favour of it. Especially the BC NDP Premier will be all for it. The more government control, the better for the NDP.

It requires a central, gradually becoming, all encompassing database and can be shared between entities.

Odd, somehow I read you didn't. lol

Yeah but then there's that, what I call the stupidest argument ever that suggests, "We have firemen so it's going to be fine to see the secret police." A little control is the the same thing as having too much or nothing but control they seem to want to suggest. They're either on board with too much control or it's the destination they'd have us sleepwalk into. They tell us there is no line you'll ever need to say no to because if there was our wonderful government would never take us past it. Except they already have. More and more recently. Examples are flooding into my brain but I won't mention them or I'll be going off topic with them to have that wrestling match some great thinker's have described as being with a metaphorical pig. "You just get dirty and the pig likes it."

Some other errors on here: The SUN explains the policy breach: https://www.google.com/amp/s/torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/goldstein-why-tory-knew-he-had-to-quit-once-extramarital-affair-exposed/wcm/a33f1338-f50e-4718-9631-6490c6ba9bbb/amp/ The Toronto Star is now owned by a member of the conservative Bitove family https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://nationalpost.com/news/jordan-bitove-will-take-full-ownership-of-torstar-reports-say/wcm/cf253c51-1532-4b64-9502-5082931c6187/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwjS7sXsuZD9AhVXjIkEHVLaB08QFnoECDAQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3ewxIUWgpYlwzXPwkfq0LM

The headlines make it seem that Trudeau was in charge of the whole operation. ?

So you supported that bank account freeze. No warrant. No justice system involvement. No innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. A state of emergency declared because of some unarmed nonviolent protesters. You are what you accuse me of. You approve of the man, Trudeau, and have a blind spot because of it. And you must be a bureaucrat. You certainly think like one.

Here are the differences I see with this. Any records from the "old world" are hard-copies, printouts kept in a file cabinet. If you want to clean out the data warehouse, you have to break into the office and grab the whole cabinet. Then start sorting through. And this info may not be very useful in terms of criminal exploitation in the "good old days". Now look at what's possible with digital data. Government databases have already been breached, and there is a market for it. Data no longer same/same.

The first seemingly minor issue is that you have to be "connected" in order to do anything involving government. It's not that way quite yet but we saw some issues like that under Covid. Putting everything online seems so convenient. It's the elderly and the poorest among us who don't have a cell phone, internet, or email address. It's unfair if they have more info about you than you have. I want complete access to my own digital data. Fixed some typos for you!

Exactly. CRA, Security and likely other government agencies have the right to look at your money. This is how they get drug dealers on "tax evasion" roughly...

What's even richer is that you're one of the Canadian schmucks that believe what you're told by the Russian state media. ? Doesn't count? What on Earth are you talking about??

This is one of the main reasons I can no longer be a liberal. When naive and ignorant leaders continue to say how unfair, racist, and colonial our country has been (even though evidence illustrates how exceptionally progressive Canada has been relative to almost every other country and tribe), after a while people believe it. We start pretending that Indigenous, blacks, and most racialized and ethnic groups never invaded, killed, kept slaves, or traded them. In Canada there were Indigenous groups that behaved far worse than the Canadian government. The reward for suppressing some facts and exaggerating others is new forms of injustice. That’s why Trudeau has been irresponsible and helped foment the division and new forms of racism we see today. He was naive to think that his rhetoric wouldn’t be used for nefarious purposes. He’s not alone among western leaders. The problem too is that pointing out Trump’s antics made it easier for Liberals and Democrats to justify their rhetoric. The focus on race is making us come apart in a country that didn’t have a lot of racial division just five years ago. Much of what’s happening is the spillover effect from George Floyd’s death in the US, a country with a much more brutal history with race that is today one of the most accepting countries from a policy perspective. So if in Canada we don’t have racist policies in government or organizations, what we’re really talking about is improving people’s attitudes towards groups outside their in-groups. What’s going to do that? Certainly not trying to make the people who are alive today who happen to be a certain colour feel guilty or like bad people. Taking or destroying their property won’t do it either. Right now the only racist policies I know of are the Indian Act (which the government wants changed but most Indigenous want to keep) and these new “racialized-only” job postings and unfair treatment of people who are accused of racism without any evidence and who are mistreated by their employers on the basis of such false accusations, even after investigations dismiss the accusations, as in the TDSB. Actually some of the content of mandatory equity training that is sweeping across organizations is also an example of systematic racism because it makes value judgments about racial groups such as, “White people are fragile” and “White people are privileged” or “Black people are oppressed.” Clearly some white people are not privileged and some black people are. Generalizing about all people who happen to be a certain colour is racism.

Maybe, more ufos will come. I'm wondering if one of these ufo they shoot down would be carrying something like pathogens or deadly chemicals that will be released when shot down?

Gee, another completely fact-free, evidence-free post. You can work a keyboard to type all this nonsense, but you can't manage to cite any evidence of your claims? Let's try an easy one: Is domestic energy production up or down under Biden? Up or down? See, this is the problem with just parroting the bullshit you hear in your echo chamber. Eventually sometime calls you on it and you just end up looking like a blathering fool. If facts and evidence are too difficult to manage we can get you a seat at the kids table. Might be more your speed.

I'm not worried, our Prime Minister Cry-Cry McFancysocks will protect us from the massive Chinese war-machine!

F-16? Aren't we still flying WWII planes?

Yeah well, you'd think someone who cared about the safety of millions that was sitting on evidence that would, you know, take them out of harm's way would let the proper authorities know about it. Obviously you haven't even bothered to tell Hannity or we would have heard about it by now - I bet he'd know his math and what to do with your's.

The fly in the ointment.

Now China can flood the zone with $2,000 balloons and we're gonna shoot them down with $100K missiles... Eventually we have to fire a shot across China's bow, even if it's just economic sanctions.

Like Doug Ford claims to be a Conservative . . .

No, he is a Conservative. Perhaps you are confusing social credit or republican for conservative.

Claims to be conservative but really just a liberal

Try to make your point without name-calling. Regardless of how high it was, we know the US had the capability to shoot it down because they shot it down, right? They have enough air power in Alaska to defeat Canada's air force in one day. The Chinese knew where that ballon was going to go, they're not dumb. More importantly, they knew that they could get away with an act of provocation against the US because they know how divided and rudderless the US is right now. They might also have enough incriminating evidence against the Bidens to get away with it. Given how powerful spy satellites are nowadays I'm surprised that they felt like a spy balloon was going to be much of an improvement, but they obviously felt like the intel they could glean from that balloon was worth the risk of harming their relationship with the US even further.

Mayor Tory is a Progressive Conservative. You continue to be confused what a conservative is.

Like I said before, it's a slippery slope thing. It begins where it is now. They'll tell you it's something for your benefit. The government of Canada says it will fix the nuisance of having to produce multiple IDs to multiple operators to get things done. https://www.canada.ca/en/government/system/digital-government/living-digital/digital-id.html The Canadian Bankers association tells you it will give you better security. https://cba.ca/embracing-digital-id-in-canada But did you catch the key little bit there? "digital ID can be standardized and used between entities with the ability to adapt by adding new information" This is not something as simple as say producing a PIN number. It's an ID that will allow government and services to share info between entities. It's not really about the ID. It's about the centralized database of the citizenry shared between entities that will be required to make the system work the way the controllers at the top will want it to. The WEF stands hard in favour of it. How will they bring it in and slippery slope it to connect with more entities? In Saskatchewan they objected at first but after being told they'd miss out on Federal cash give-outs they agreed to a centralized data-base. https://paherald.sk.ca/will-scott-moe-stand-up-for-sask-people-on-digital-id/ So how can it be used online, you asked? Well it's all online, But take bill C-11, for example. Right now they're just talking about "protecting" select targets like Canadian content producers. How long before they want "protect" you from your ISP and any social media you belong to? And keep remembering they want to "protect" you between entities. Next they connect the database and the attached database to energy to "protect" you from "global warming" abusers. And on it goes.

Not sure what all the fear is about, we have had chipped cards for a long time, a card to access health care, to drive, boat, proof of insurance, all in cards or ID. and what is so different from actual ID to digital. Reason i ask is becasue there is so much info out there right now and some of it are on the fringe, one does not know what is true or false... Secondly we discussed the WEF in detail, and you described them as just a economic group with little to no influence in global affairs, and yet the video provided mentions a WEF diagram, about how digital ID will be used to control the populace, in many forms. On other webs sites they describe digital ID being used to further control climate change, where the government sets our individual carbon footprint, and all material items we purchased are assigned a carbon price , once you go over your total carbon total you pay an extra carbon fee...I find it concerning that all these measures or suggestions are tied back to the WEF programs.

Alberta and B.C. are using Digital ID to access government services that are available online. That is not what the girl on Twitter is talking about. The video is on a Twitter feed although originally may have been on Tik Tok. Should be safe to click on. Her comments are opposed to Communism. She is talking about far more than government services. Without even reading or listening to these articles, how are going to make any intelligent comments about them?

399 patients out of over 4 billion vaccinated persons?? LOL. Now that is a valid study???? LOL LOL

https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/02/10/gold-standard-rct-from-gates-funded-company-proves-ivermectin-works-against-covid/ The study, conducted on 399 patients, met its primary efficacy endpoint with a reduction of 75 percent of COVID-19 infection in the group treated with daily oral administration of Ivermectincompared to the placebo group. All participants were unvaccinated adults and had been exposed to the virus within five days of screening after documented close contact with a person who had a PCR-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. After administering Ivermectin for 28 days, the drug showed acceptable safety and tolerability with zero unforeseen safety signals.

@August1991 - all these posts are true. This Ukraine thing is none of our business. It's not even any of NATO's business.

For you maybe, because you're a credulous dolt who believes everything on CTV and CNN. Trump was an extremely effective president, and 2019 was the peak of American civilization. It's starting to look more and more likely that Americans of all races will never feel the safety, security and economic success that they were enjoying in 2019.

That's not my degree, but it's so on-brand that you would rush to defend this sort of rubbish. It'd almost be funny, but then it's you, so it's just boring. ? This video could have been using cat-girl filters and you'd have still been nodding your head vigorously and taking it super seriously, so long as it said something something "TRUDEAU MAN BAD".

Yeah, it flys in the face of exflya’s logic. Keep shooting up, flyboy. I hear the new flu shots are out. Take the whole family and the fourth one’s on the House! ?

It's also evidence we don't need to defend our own airspace Americans will defend it for us. You should read up on the relationship between great blue herons and eagles. I'm always amazed by the way certain efficiencies in survival tactics are often repeated in nature.

Your problem is, you are applying logic to various bodies of government. Logic doesn’t apply there, there are too many agendas.

Did that happen? In your quest to disagree with me on the worst day of your life, I respectfully request a cite.