CBDCs, Digital IDs, Social Credit Scores
The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada did not follow up any of more than 27,000 consumer complaints it received against banks in the past five years, Access To Information records show. Parliament created the Agency to “protect the rights” of bank customers. Judith Robertson, cabinet’s $285,000-a year Commissioner responsible for the Agency, refused an interview.
“The Agency does not publicly comment on its supervisory activities,” said Léonie Laflamme-Savoie, spokesperson for the Commissioner. “Thank you and have a nice day.”
Access records show since 2019 a total 27,323 consumers complained to the
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Read MoreThe Bank of Canada has decided to leave its interest rate unchanged, remaining at 5%, according to a statement released by the central bank on Wednesday.
The statement went on to say that it was “prepared to increase the policy interest rate further if needed” while it “remains concerned about the persistence of underlying inflationary pressures.”
Core inflation metrics have shown “little recent downward moment
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Read MoreEva J. Tompkins Esq. from CBDC Watch explains the Bank of International Settlements plan to “tokenize” everything you own and how CBDCs will enable them to take your assets with ease. This will be sold to you under the guise of convenience.
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Read MoreLet me start by thanking the Atlantic Council for providing a fitting venue to discuss central banks’ forays into Digital Currencies.
Since its founding in 1961, the Council has made important contributions to strategic, political, and economic policy debates. Those debates have served us well, helping us to test the boundaries of our thinking and be better prepared for what lies ahead.
So, today, we aim to test our thinking again. We have moved beyond conceptual discussions of CBDCs and we are now in the phase of experimentation. Central banks are rolling up their sleeves and familiarizing themselves with the bits and bytes of digital money.
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Read More‘Whatever the puppet government and the puppet opposition say about anything is always and only to distract from the real plan and therefore the real threat to our freedom and way of life.’
Neil Oliver says ‘the ship of state is in a hell of a state’.
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Read MoreOn the Theo Von Podcast released Tuesday, Dr. Jordan Peterson said he’s concerned about the possibility of Canada and other western countries getting digital IDs like China uses.“This is going to happen here, I think, too, although maybe people will fight it,” he told Von.
Peterson, who’s spent much of his life studying the apparent ease with which humans can become genocidal maniacs, noted how life under the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is borderline indistinguishable from what took place in Orwell’s 1984.
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Read MoreThe National Australia Bank (NAB) updated its terms and conditions to inform customers they have a new relationship that resembles that of a schoolteacher and grade school student. The bank is implementing changes, effective November 1 2023, that indicate the grounds on which they might debank an individual from using their services.
Effectively, NAB may debank customers any time they hurt another person’s feelings.
This includes if customers are guilty of “making profane, derogatory, discriminatory or harassing comments to any person,” or inflicting “psychological harm.”
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Read MoreLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan’s Ulez punch-down on cars and vans owned by the less affluent is just one example of the attacks planned against town dwellers living in modern industrial societies. Khan is the current chairman of C40, a global network of city mayors backed by numerous hard-Left billionaire foundations. Removing cars from cities is just one of its aims. In a Headline Report published by the group in 2019 and re-emphasised earlier this year, a “progressive” target for 2030 was set of a daily per person allowance of 44g of meat (enough for two small meatballs), a daily limit of 2,500 calories, (less than the ration in the Second World War), one short haul flight every three years, eight new clothing items a year and private cars available for only one in five people. This “pioneering piece of thought leadership” was said to seek a “radical, and rapid, shift in consumption patterns”.
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Read MoreInterac opens its new report, “Digital Verification for Canadian Businesses: Insights from Decision Makers”, with a statement on trust.
“Trust is the cornerstone of any meaningful relationship, whether personal or business related,” says the report. Consumers want to trust the businesses they interact with. Likewise, businesses looking to provide a personalized product or service need to trust that their customers are telling their truth about their identity.
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Read MoreSeptember 22 is coming quickly for Quebec employers. That is the day when the Canadian province’s biometric information guidelines go fully into force.
Two business associations who will be fielding many questions about the guidelines, the Society for Human Resource Management and privacy-professionals group, the IAPP, are publishing reminders. The guidelines will be enforced by the Commission on Access to Information.
An article on the International Association of Privacy Professional’s site almost immediately hits readers with penalties for not obeying Quebec’s date-staged 2021 Act 25 (originally known as Bill 64).
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