Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis (Haldimand-Norfolk, ON) called out the World Economic Forum for trying to control people with the Agile Nations Charter. .“At no time did the prime minister tell Canadians he would be ushering in the fourth industrial revolution by completely altering the way we make policy in this country,” said Lewis in a video. .Some of the projects the WEF is pushing which Lewis said she has concerns with are coordinated national standards bodies, digital credentials, pre-loaded air cargo targeting, consumer-connected products, experimental approaches, anticipatory regulations, and digital health software devices. .She said she's received many letters from people about digital identification, smart cities, and 15-minute cities. She wants to ensure people look at digital IDs under the Agile Nations Charter. .The Canadian government said these projects “aim to increase the global reliance on digital trusted technologies.” In other words, she said it's about making digital IDs permanent parts of people’s lives. .The Conservative MP went on to say the problem most Canadians have with digital IDs is governments can abuse their power. There are people who want to have a choice to opt out of them. .They might not want it forced upon them. She said they need protections from potential abuse of their privacy, especially if all of their personal information is stored in one digital ID. .Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the Emergencies Act to freeze the bank accounts of protestors which he disagreed with. If that did not happen, she said people might be more trusting of digital IDs. .ArriveCan discriminated against seniors who did not have a smartphone. These seniors were fined and prevented from getting back into Canada without extensive delays until they downloaded ArriveCan and uploaded their personal information. .Lewis continued by saying digital IDs “cannot be mandatory, especially when the government hasn’t addressed its past abuses and when it hasn’t ironed out how they are going to prevent future governmental overreach.” Most people who she's spoken with do not have a problem with them in general. .They use bank and credit cards and digital means of money wiring and paying bills. The problem is they do not trust the government with all of their personal information in one place. .Lewis concluded by saying people need to push back against the domination of the executive branch through the Agile Nations Charter. .“Because if we don’t, we are going to continue to see governments operating below the radar of Canadians and outside of Parliament,” she said. .“Our leader, the Honourable Pierre Poilievre, is listening to your concerns and will not dismiss your questions on digital ID.” .Lewis blew the whistle on the secrecy of the Canadian government towards the Agile Nations Charter in January. .READ MORE: UPDATED: 'Why the secrecy?' Leslyn Lewis questions Canada's signing of WEF's Agile Nations Charter.“The Liberals chose to enter into a World Economic Forum-initiated Charter without parliamentary input,” she said. .“The unelected WEF is not our government.”
