Ottawa says it has no plans to introduce a mandatory national digital identification system and is instead prioritizing a billion-dollar project to modernize how Canadians access federal benefits and government services online.
The commitment came in the federal government’s Aug. 19 response to a House of Commons e-petition sponsored by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis, which called on Parliament to reject current and future proposals for a national digital ID.
“The Government is not developing a mandatory national digital identification system or a centralized database of Canadians’ personal or biometric information,” the government said in a note first reported on by Blacklock’s Reporter….