Tracking Health Data

 

Internal passport, Nazi Germany, 1939

Some time ago, I noted that, by uncanny coincidence, the Trudeau government is taking just the steps a government would take if it intended to turn Canada into a totalitarian dictatorship. Control of the press. Seizure of guns. Freezing the assets of any opposition. Outlawing peaceful protest. Setting up a controlled opposition—the NDP. Restricting freedom of speech on the Internet: Bill C-11.  Restricting freedom of speech in the public square: the “hate laws.” Establishing a need for identity papers—the vaccination passes and the ArriveCan app. Trying to suppress and bring to heel pre-emptively those segments of the population least dependent on government and hardest for government to control: the transient truckers, the self-sufficient farmers.

The coincidence has now grown even more remarkable. Arrested in their attempt to impose an internal passport by the end of the pandemic emergency—although they tried to rush it into being just before the pandemic ended--the Trudeau government seems to be trying to impose one by other means. 

The Canadian health care system is in crisis; not just because of the pandemic, but because the federal government, years ago, limited their contributions. The premiers have been begging for help.

Now Trudeau has announced a package with $46.2 billion in new spending. However, “To access the enhanced CHT, provinces must first commit to improving how health data is ‘collected, shared, used and reported to Canadians to promote greater transparency on results, and to help manage public health emergencies.’"

That might sound harmless, but does it address a real problem? Do Canadians care about collecting accurate health data; is that the emergency? Or about getting prompt diagnosis, medicines and surgery? Is data collection where the additional money should go first?

Perhaps the provinces have been squandering their funding? If so, that can be as readily addressed by voters at the provincial as at the federal level. And the Canadian Constitution specifies that be handled at the provincial level.

But it does open the door to the federal government collecting and coordinating health data on all Canadians. It can be used as an excuse to reintroduce an internal passport. Keep tabs on you at all times to maintain your health data, sure; just like the vaccine passport. But also then your whereabouts at all times, your expressed political opinions, your bank and financial transactions, and, given present technology, much else.

Given the actions of the Trudeau government, it is urgent that we vote them out at the first chance. And obviously not in favour of the NDP. 

But will we get a chance? They now control the media, and are about to control the Internet, so that opposition parties will have trouble getting their message out. 

Ontario, and some other provinces, have begun to use voting machines. We must be vigilant that the federal government does not sneak them in at the federal level. Voting machines prevent citizen oversight and forensic examination. They are a blank cheque to rig any election.

If and when you hear that voting machines are coming in for federal election, you will know the jig is up.