Canada-Ontario Party pushback Digital ID programs

Pushback in Canada against the introduction of digital ID programs

 

A petition being circulated by the Ontario Party demanded the legislature show “zero tolerance for the implementation of any Digital ID program in Ontario, and that any government endeavor seeking to establish a system akin to the ‘social credit’ system of communist China be condemned, halted and banned.”

The two main points in this petition are :

1.Insist that principles of data minimization, decentralization, consent, and limited access must be upheld in Ontario even as our world becomes increasingly digitized.

2. Demand that there be ZERO TOLERANCE for the implementation of any Digital ID program in Ontario, and that any government endeavor seeking to establish a system akin to the “social credit” system of communist China be condemned, halted and banned.

Marc Vezina, director of government enterprise architecture and chief enterprise architect in Quebec’s Ministry of Cybersecurity and Digital, also acknowledged seeing “a lot of misunderstanding” on the concept of digital ID. “We have to work more on that with a collaborative approach with the provinces and territories. We need a common message or line for our citizens.” Even within his government, more clarity is needed, he said.

A separate conference session was a reminder that digital ID and digital transformation are international issues. Canada is one of nine countries in the Digital Nations forum (along with the U.K., Estonia, Israel. Portugal, Denmark, Mexico, New Zealand, South Korea and Uruguay) exchanging lessons learned.

 

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