Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, a proponent of centralized control, has finalized a controversial collaborative digital partnership with the European Union. This agreement exhibits full commitment to the introduction of a digital identity system in Canada and the government is pursuing it, in part, under the guise of fighting online “disinformation.”
The Trudeau government’s announcement delineates the terms of the Canada-EU Digital Partnership, which aims not only to institute digital credentials for Canadians but also to bolster cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
The contentious partnership insists on a joint effort from Canada and the EU to bolster their respective bilateral and multilateral cooperation in forums like the G7 and the G20.
“The Digital Partnership will allow Canada and the EU to have a stronger common voice in multilateral fora, where appropriate, and bring jointly developed solutions to international partners and advance our joint strategic priorities,” the announcement states.
The G20, an influential conglomerate of the globe’s 19 major countries and the EU, has previously encouraged exploring the creation of “digital public infrastructure,” including potential digital identification systems and perhaps even a centralized digital currency.
This “digital public infrastructure” phrase is the same buzzword being used by the likes of The Gates Foundation and the UN, when it comes to pushing digital ID and payment systems.
Alarmingly for many Canadians that support the protection of civil liberties, Trudeau has demonstrated a seemingly unwavering allegiance to this digital ID agenda.
Alright let me make a devils advocate position in good faith.
Government surveillance is bad. A digital ID system is government surveillance.
If the system is OP-in for non social media sites. But mandatory for major social media sites, pornography, liquor/weed purchase sites and for commenting on news sites… It’s not that different then the current web?
I mean we all use Firefox, TOR and VPNs if we want privacy on the web at this point. The government having a centralized point to deanonymize you on standard web isn’t really a big deal.
Now if they crack down on VPN/alternate methods then yeah… It’s gonna be a bad time. But I can actually see this as an attack vector to prevent misinformation.