Having spent 13 years railing against a long-gun registry, concerned about the cost, the invasion of privacy, and questioning the need for law-abiding peole to admit fire-arm ownership to the police, Stockwell Day is now reviving a proposal for a biometric national ID card.
A 'people-registry,' if you will.
After all, guns don't people, people kill people.
Law-abiding people will now have to provide all sorts of information on their law-abiding selves to the government.
And all for the discount price of $7B, according to a study by the immigration committee in 2003.
Thankfully, no one will have to admit if they have a shot-gun.
Flip-flop, flip-flop, flip-flop.
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The Social Insurance Number (SIN) already tells the government all about you. Think of the things that it is used for. You already sre regestered - from the time you are born until your daeth. The only thing they do not know is how you voted.
Of course this card would consolidate many other cards we carry, this doesn't bother me.
The main problem will be identity theft. Can you imagine how hard it is for you if you lost your card. Already several Canadians have experianced this ... BIG PROBLEM!!
If they want to do this, then educate alll Canadians of both por and con cncerning this card.
This is one of the rare times the LIEberals did something that made sense. EDUCATION is te key here - one of the things I would want to know is what information is on the card - how much will be true and how much false information?
The money should go back to the forestry industry - it was a levy on their lumber and deserved to be compensated. This would be like the CRTC NOT returning the money back to the customers instead using it to futher communication in the northern areas of Canada. I thought this waas a matter of Paralament - not by telephone companies asking the money be used as "they" want, instead of using their profits to do this.
It isn't only the USA that desire such a "travel" identy card but ome other countries.
You seriously think that the government doesn't already have a "people registry"??
Do you have a Social Insurance Card? Health card? Birth certificate? Pay your taxes? Vote?
The goverment already knows EXACTLY who you are. Most of us already carry "ID" cards around with us, they are called Drivers Licences. If you've ever had experience with cops or government agents, they always ask for that, even if what they are talking to you about has NOTHING to do with driving.
BUT, not everybody drives, and drivers licences are different in every province, some of them very easy to tamper with.
The national ID card is just an idea to expand on this. Roll SIN, Health Card, Proof of Citizenship, Photo ID, etc all into one card that is standard across the country and hopefully tamper proof.
Its not part of some big conspiracy to put a barcode on your forehead and put you into some George W Bush security database. Lay off the crack and take off the tinfoil hat.
Anonymous said: "The national ID card is just an idea to expand on this. Roll SIN, Health Card, Proof of Citizenship, Photo ID, etc all into one card that is standard across the country and hopefully tamper proof."
".... hopefully tamper proof"
That is the important thing here. The problem still remains, what if it is lost or stolen? Would there be sme ytpe of picture or id question that only the owner of the card knows?
As for the USA, isn't there a company in BC that has medical records of Canadians run by a US firm. Wasn't there concern that these racords would be given to them? I don't know what happened to this story, but the fact remains, they already know - or can find out - all about you.
Hmmm, an interesting debate.
The Pro's and con's of the government data mining its own citizens aside, my real point was the contradiction of the shutting down a gun registry, and starting up a people registry.
With the cost estimates of 7B for the people registry, I am not sure how you argue the gun registry is too expensive or intrusive...
Maybe anonymous would prefer a blogger registry.
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