Stats Canada is looking at banking records of Canadians without our consent.
The notion bureaucrats have access to our banking patterns while not having sufficiently explain why they need this information is Orwellian full stop.
Of course, this happened under a Liberal party where scandals are the rule and not the exception.
At the moment, privacy and free speech (Facebook data mining, NSA, Twitter and Facebook shutting down conservative voices but leaving alone violent rhetoric from the left etc.) are two huge issues North Americans have been slow to react to.
At some point, we need to sharpen our skeptic eyes and draw a line in the sand.
Alas, they already have access and control of our health so expanding to our finances is only a natural outflow of this.
But this is not a good development.
I'm glad people in the comments are a) offering thoughtful concerns and b) outraged at the preposterous notion of Stats Can begin allowed to get into our bank information.
Sure, there are the usual drones who think there's nothing to see here exhibiting their predictable NPC views. You know, the 'if you have nothing to hide' nonsense and 'this is needed to help us all improve blah, blah'. They can't seem to look beyond the standard 'it's for the greater good' slogan and understand this goes beyond that. In other words, they insist on being useful idiots for the state.
It's enough of a problem that the Chief statistician chose to step down rather than partake in this nefarious scheme.
The notion bureaucrats have access to our banking patterns while not having sufficiently explain why they need this information is Orwellian full stop.
Of course, this happened under a Liberal party where scandals are the rule and not the exception.
At the moment, privacy and free speech (Facebook data mining, NSA, Twitter and Facebook shutting down conservative voices but leaving alone violent rhetoric from the left etc.) are two huge issues North Americans have been slow to react to.
At some point, we need to sharpen our skeptic eyes and draw a line in the sand.
Alas, they already have access and control of our health so expanding to our finances is only a natural outflow of this.
But this is not a good development.
I'm glad people in the comments are a) offering thoughtful concerns and b) outraged at the preposterous notion of Stats Can begin allowed to get into our bank information.
Sure, there are the usual drones who think there's nothing to see here exhibiting their predictable NPC views. You know, the 'if you have nothing to hide' nonsense and 'this is needed to help us all improve blah, blah'. They can't seem to look beyond the standard 'it's for the greater good' slogan and understand this goes beyond that. In other words, they insist on being useful idiots for the state.
It's enough of a problem that the Chief statistician chose to step down rather than partake in this nefarious scheme.
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