Using the pandemic as an excuse, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has introduced a plan to develop a digital identification program that would be managed on a federal level.
The program will work just like a regular driver’s license to establish your identification, but will be totally digital and accessible across federal agencies. The purpose is to not only create a way to prove you are who you say you are, but to “support seamless service delivery to Canadians across the country.”
In theory this program would also benefit certain commercial enterprises such as airlines. It has critics, though, who cite privacy concerns as their main objection. Canadian officials responded that privacy doesn’t have to be a concern because the program “doesn’t have to be designed that way.”
SOURCE:
True North Canada August 10, 2022