A little-known Trans-Canada digital identity regime in the works, in whose interest?

Canada's federal and provincial governments need to hit pause and rethink their digital identity scheme and digital legislation which are pushing sufficient and secure privacy protection largely aside.

Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien, right, and Ellen Weintraub, pictured May 28, 2019, at the House Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee. In a recent March speech, the privacy commissioner expressed concerns that the penalty grounds for privacy invasion in Bill C-11 are too limited.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN RUBIN

April 29, 2021

OTTAWA—Are Canadians being gamed by certain government and corporate interests into believing a brighter post-pandemic future is coming if we all have digital IDs? They say it means more effective government services and a better data-driven economy. It is not an effort to establish a central data...

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