Canadian panel suggests digital IDs could track vaccine status, encourage un-jabbed into getting shots
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(LifeSiteNews) — A panel led by a top Canadian Liberal party deputy minister discussed the potential of using a type of digital ID to track the vaccination status of Canadians, as well as to potentially coax the unvaccinated into getting jabbed.
According to a True North report from Tuesday, a Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) event held on February 1 included Joni Brennan, President of the Digital ID & Authentication Council, who said that digital IDs would be helpful “to get [the unvaccinated] the vaccine” as well as track one’s jab status.
The event was called The New Economy Series: Digital Identity as a New Policy Frontier and had panelists from both the private and public sectors.
Brennan made the reply in response to a question from Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, Francis Bilodeau, who moderated the online event.
Bilodeau had asked Brennan and other panelists how to best put forth to “political masters and ministers” how digital IDs could be of importance as well as how a “digital identity and a proper digital infrastructure” could “help us deal with future situations or future pandemics.”
“Arguably, also, we haven’t necessarily done yet the great job of convincing our political masters and ministers of the importance of investing in this,” said Bilodeau. “What is everybody’s best sort of 10-second elevator pitch on why this matters, why we should be doing this?”
Brennan noted in reply that “identity is important for the pandemic.”