Turns out that StatsCan has already scooped up reams of information on the financial lives of Canadians. By going to the banks they are simply coming back for more.
What could possibly go wrong? Details here.
Turns out that StatsCan has already scooped up reams of information on the financial lives of Canadians. By going to the banks they are simply coming back for more.
What could possibly go wrong? Details here.
The delicious irony of this is that Stats Can will now have the forensic evidence of Indigenous Band Council members compensations and spending habits that the Liberals fought to conceal from us. Perhaps Perry Bellegrade has any thoughts on this to pass on to his noble warrior chiefs?
Yes, that’s why Statistics Canada did this.
Well now he has no excuse for not knowing how badly he and Butts are screwing up the country. I know he isn’t good at math two dropouts in engineering prove that but minus signs in front of your investments ain”t good.
disgusted s r…
Except all Indigenous Band Council members are exempt from Stats Can scrutiny and have been since the creation of the Federal Indian Affairs department.
JMHO
Dear All,
It is NOT trudeau’s canada, trudeau does not get to define what is and is not canadian. I do! Period! Because I am canadian. So do you, if you are canadian. Neither is the country his, it is mine. It is also yours. It is NOT the gov’ts, it doesn’t belong to the gov’t.
When confronted with a schmuck as PM, it is necessary to know what he is doing but don’t assign any authority to it in your mind.
A real canadian!
The information is to be weaponized and used against the targets of the elite. Indigenous Band Council members aren’t their targets.
You and I are.
Their purpose is to create new taxation legislation that most perfectly targets only those they wish crushed.
You can’t trust the government with your data. Down here we’ve got the NSA, the IRS, the Patriot Act – all being used against us illegally. Even the President isn’t immune.
They will never get my banking information! Never! Never! Never! Muh privuhcy! Muh principulls!
Now, you’ll excuse me while I go order some weed from the Ontario Cannabis Store.
I totally trust those guys.
This is from Christine Duhaime, who is a financial crimes lawyer and works in the anti-terrorist finance world among other places (fromTwitter):
“Banks are allowed to collect and retain personal data under anti-money laundering law and Stats Canada isn’t authorized to obtain data collected pursuant to AML law. It’s not in the legislation to info-share to non law enforcement agencies. Would be a gross violation of the law.”
Besides looking at it in terms of what privacy law allows the banks to hand over, IMO the Statistics Act does not clearly allow Stats Canada to collect it (meaning access to an individual’s banking profile and history, as opposed to collecting info about how many people withdrew $200 from the ATM at Main and East Broadway yesterday). This is contrary to what SC claims, but I think the power to collect this in this manner would have to be clearly stated in the legislation, and I do not see that it is. Also, why don’t they just buy all this information from Google, which probably already has most of it.
I think a class action suit is called for. I hope that some enterprising lawyer pursues this. The action is a gross breech of privacy. Liberals should be ashamed of themselves for showing such disrespect for the privacy rights of Canadians.
So, which Trudeau appointed judge is going to hear your case? Sure looks bad for Trudeau…
“Also, why don’t they just buy all this information from Google, which probably already has most of it.”
Or Facebook? Everybody except Trump is allowed to use Facebook for targeted advertising.
did anybody see the Frontline thing about mr fakebook?
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/facebook-dilemma/
or is mention of PUBLIC broadcasting verboten @ SDA?
I watched both parts. Is Zuckerberg being obtuse or is he really that dense that he didn’t think that what his tomfool company had any effects?
If he’s anything like he was portrayed in that dreadful movie The Social Network, he’s a devious little twerp with delusions of grandeur on the scale of that of Soros.
By the way, what’s this obsession about “changing the world” that people like him have?
Let’s all switch to using as much cash as we are personably able to and let them fret over that.
Here is what is coming:
– CRA gets to fish through the data (do you really believe stats Canada won’t share it? Oh they’ll redact the name, addresss and SIN number, then share it). Using big data matching techniques (using for example postal code, pay cheque info, tax income info, etc) CRA can line it all up). Yes the CRA can ask banks for an individual ‘s records now, but now they’ll get to go fishing through lots of people.
– the Liberals will get an idea of how much money they can make with an estate tax (they’ll ask for 20% and settle for 10% after the outrage occurs)
– the banks will charge you more fees, cause now their costs go up.
– and the big one: the Liberals will institute a wealth tax. Say 1% of your total wealth per year. That’s 1% of your bank accounts and world wide assets including RRSP, investments, your house, cottage, car, etc. Since the government has access to detailed financial data for 500,000 Canadians, it is easy to expand it to all Canadians
Brian keep pounding away at this… this absolutely infuriates me. StatsCanada should be dissolved.
I think the up coming class action has a really good chance, when it lands in the court of a PET appointee, or Chretien appointee, or other Trudeau appointee…
This is not going to happen. The banks don’t want to lose the business of the overseas Chinese underworld and mainland Chinese oligarchs, who pay the Big Five top dollar to keep their laundered money safe and not to ask where it came from.
If this was just about confiscating Canadians’ life savings, that would be one thing. Expose just how profitable the fentanyl racket really is (just for starters)? Forget that.
An appropriate response will be the disbanding of Stats Canada.
No firing of the bureau chiefs, hell no lay them all off, every single employee.
Sorry parasites your “jobs” no longer exist.
Stats Canada has no useful function,we have decades of proof.
Even with mandatory information extraction,the Canadian Government has never been ready for even the most predictable changes of our society.
Todays politicians are proven mathematical illiterates,so statistical data is meaningless to them,the Deputy Ministers are career leaches who exist to give the elected parasites cover,so real data is an actual impediment to their agencies..
Hence Stats Canada has no function beneficial to the taxpayer.
Shut them down and burn their records.
Sheer needs to stand up in parliament and demand that if the groper approves of this Stats Can info grab, then he should lead the way by being first to give over his (Justins) personal banking info…
Maybe, just maybe we will find out how much Turdoe the Elder stole from Canadians to pad the trust fund that provides his spawn with their monthly pay check.
The Turdoe family were heavily invested in Petro Fina, which through Liberal legislation became Petro Canada long ago in another lifetime.
Time to go to the mattresses.