Canadians Wary of 'Enhanced Drivers Licenses'

Dr.Merkwurdigeliebe writes ""Enhanced drivers licenses such as those to be issued in B.C. will lay the groundwork for a national identity card", federal privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said yesterday. Stoddart said the licenses, touted as an alternative to a passport for the purpose of crossing the U.S. border, closely resemble the Real ID program in the United States. She characterized that program as a way of introducing a "type of national identity card" for Americans."

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Won't fly.

[Anonymous Coward]

Brits have resisted ID cards for over 4 decades.

The American RealID will collapse due to the lack of state support (14 refuse to implement, numerous states refuse to fund, not to mention the inevitable protests).

The Chinese have ID cards, and they also have execution vans roaming the countryside acting as judge, jury and executioner, handing out justice at needlepoint.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-06-14-death-van_x.htm

What they don't tell you is china also pulls organs from the bodies.

The Canuk's won't accept an ID card. They have just as many guns and ammo as the US does and they really don't like being screwed with.

What a load of crap

[SmallFurryCreature]

The US and China use the exact same method of execution. Just that China is more honest and kills all its people who commit crimes, not just blacks.

Since they both use the same method your logic kinda falls apart to link this with any ID card system.

As for them roaming the country side, no they are just used to avoid having the cost of building facilities at all locations, they are no different from the US system where apparently the state has found the money to introduce them in its facilities. The vans are just a method, they could just as easily perhaps have chosen to make one central facility to which all condemned are transported. A death factory, not sure what would cause more of an outcry.

So you have two countries, both of which execute people in a highly contested way, often with a lot of questions about the legallity of the trial. Is it a coindence that the majority of convicts in the US is black and/or poor?

If anything I think the Chinese method is to be preffered, how many millionairs has the US executed? If you are going to have the death penalty, then I prefer to have the implementation that has all walks of life walking to their death, not just those to poor to defend themselves.

As for political prisoners, you mean the ones China calls terrrorists? When are we going to get a look at what really happens in Quatonmo? Where the US houses its political prisoners?

Pot, meet kettle. My aren't you two black.

Also note that most EU countries have a national ID card, and NO death penalty and far better records on the subject of human rights then both the US and China.