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A Digital Certificate For Every Canadian
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?"
this is unnecessary, microsoft already has a system called passport that works even better
why reinvent the wheel?
they should avoid using online voting in florida. i can hear it now... "i meant to push the LEFT mouse button... it was so confusing..."
Yeah well they don't have pedestrians being picked off by snipers do they?
Is Prime Minister Jean Poutine even aware of this initiative?
"You've got bribes!"
!#@%*)anks for hanging up the phone, dear.
If it goes wrong, we all know who to blame.. right? :)
You got it all wrong. You guys where suppose to be the 11 province.
As a Canadian I'm apathetic and hopelessly ambivalent. But if it's offered it would be impolite to say no. Queen Elizabeth, now visiting during her Golden Jubilee, during one of her earlier visits to Nova Scotia was presented with a giant, fiberglass lobster. She was given a giant, fiberglass lobster because the fine folks of Nova Scotia found out she didn't have one. I'm sure the federal government in is similar vein is issuing online identity certificates. Remeber, identity is an ongoing national struggle for Canadians so every little bit helps.
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Seriousley, does the United States just look for capitlist excuses to bust the budget, waste untold sums of money on espionage, tearing down foreign regimes, dumbing school students down and relying on the Military Industrial Complex to pull the company out of a recession that will soon lead to an all-out Depression?
Socialism costs money. But laying foundation for our great-great-great grandchildren to live in a nation free of nuclear proliferation and unaccountable government.
A 64 bits Canadian certificate is equivalent to a 100 bits American one.
Je t'aime Stéphanie
Wait...shouldn't this be modded +4 Funny? I mean, Canada, cities?
Exactly how many of the pharmaceuticals you folks use are Canadian? "American"? I thought so. See, you're quick to point out how much we suck, but such whining really misses a truly encompassesing valid comparisons.
The best export you guys produce is OpenBSD. Get over it.
Heck, Toronto has more than double the murder rate of Brussels. We should be doing what the Belgians do. (Ummm, what exactly do the Belgians do? Oh yeah, pancakes or something, right....)
arrested for owning a gun, charged for saying something 'racist', and imprisoned for WRITING DOWN child porn
Oh my gosh - the Gun Nuts, the Klan, and Child Abusers aren't welcome in Canada? Terrible, who's next? Necrophiles? What about the poor, poor People Who Torture Animals?
Who would want to live in a country where you couldn't do things like that?
And he lives in Vancouver. The guy from Quebec you're thinking of is Jean Smith. People get those two guys mixed up all the time. Its a bit of a joke among us Canadians.
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"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." - Homer Simpson [1F10]
I've actually made a couple of posts as an American defending Canadians, but now that I see how cheap your broadband is, I hate you all. I hope Zimbabwe invades and sinks your linky subs and enslaves the lot of you. :)
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.