A Digital Certificate For Every Canadian

Posted by timothy on Saturday October 12, 2002 @04:38AM from the chickens-and-pots dept.

thepacketmaster writes "September 27 of this year, the Canadian government took a quiet step into the online world. Called Government Online, this broad project involves giving every Canadian citizen a digital certificate, which will allow citizens to access their personal government records online. So far they only have the Custom & Revenue Agency online with a simple Change of Address, but there are over a hundred more applications from various agencies ready to be put online. Could this be the start of something good, or is this Big Brother? How about voting online?"

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Well by quantaman · 2002-10-12 04:44 · Score: 1, Flamebait

How about voting online?

They better not run IIS!

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What a waste by SexyKellyOsbourne · 2002-10-12 05:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Seriously, does Canada just look for socialist excuses to bust the budget, waste untold sums of money on data entry and IT services for billions upon billions of documents in a giant database, and raise taxes past 50% for a database that only lawyers and bored hackers will ever use?

This isn't a step into the future -- it's just outright government waste. The Canadian government needs a line-item veto system even more than we do.