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That is because they found something better:

The World Economic Forum’s (WEF) initiative to test the use of digital ID in travel with the collaboration of Canada has been delayed due to the pandemic, says Transport Canada.

Details about the WEF’s project called the Known Traveler Digital Identity (KTDI) were revealed through an Inquiry of Ministry filed by Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis in June.

“The gov’t finally admitted that they have a $105.3 million contract with the World Economic Forum for the Known Traveler Digital ID. Take a look at this order paper. It’s no longer a conspiracy theory – it’s a contractual fact!” tweeted Lewis on Oct. 5, providing a link to the Inquiry.

Canada’s involvement in the pilot project is documented in official statements since it was announced in 2018, and the dollar figure associated to it is listed in Budget 2021.

Lewis said during her campaign for party leadership this summer that she would remove Canada from the project if elected prime minister.

The Netherlands is the other country taking part in the WEF initiative. Other participants include Montreal Trudeau and Toronto Pearson airports, Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, Air Canada, Royal Dutch Airlines, and IT and services firm Accenture.

Implementing broader digital ID systems in society is a stated “urgent” WEF objective.

“With people, organizations and internet-enabled devices all interacting with one another virtually, we urgently require solutions that enable us to establish trust between ourselves and other people in the digital sphere, as well as carry out interactions that feel meaningful,” says the WEF digital ID guide for executives.

The federal and provincial governments in Canada are working on putting respective programs in place.

The WEF paper on KTDI published in 2021 says that Canadians are “demanding” a centralization of ID management in Canada.

“A digital identification infrastructure in Canada and other similar countries could benefit from a collaborative public-private approach, enabling interoperability with different systems in the travel ecosystem to facilitate seamless interactions for the traveller, e.g. at the airport to pass through security, board the plane and cross borders through to car rental and checking into the hotel,” says the paper.

The WEF also says the KTDI could be expanded to include information such as vaccination certificates.

“The need for trusted digital travel credentials as a result of COVID-19 is paramount and clearly, from the different solutions that have emerged, the pandemic has served as a burning platform urging stakeholders to get the design of trusted digital credentials for travel right.”

 

 

Don't rush or anything:

After a decade-long procurement drama involving false starts and accusations of rigging the outcome, Canadian soldiers should expect replacements for their second world war-vintage sidearms by the middle of next year.

A Department of National Defence press release issued early Friday morning announced the signing of a US $3.2 million (CAD $4.3 million) contract with Victoria, B.C.-based armourer M.D. Charlton to purchase Sig Sauer P320 handguns and holsters as part of its C22 full-frame modular pistol procurement program.

 

 

It's easy to suggest that now that the parties are dead:

A member of James Smith Cree Nation was wrongfully accused by RCMP of killing an individual during the stabbing attacks last month in the community and in the nearby village of Weldon, Sask.

Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore said evidence shows Damien Sanderson did not kill anyone during the rampage and was killed by his own brother.

 

 

Yoon may be sparking up the South Korean economy but he must realise by now that Justin and Biden are useless sociopaths:

South Korea's ambassador on North Korean human rights expressed disappointment on Thursday that Joe Biden's administration had yet to appoint an envoy for the issue, despite the U.S. leader's vow to put rights at the center of his foreign policy.

Lee Shin-wha was named to her post in South Korea in July after President Yoon Suk-yeol took office in May.

The position had been vacant for five years while the previous South Korean government sought to engage with North Korea to try to persuade it to give up its nuclear and missile programs, a process the Biden administration has tried but failed to revive.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told a congressional hearing in June last year the Biden administration was determined to appoint a North Korea rights envoy, but that he was not able to offer a timeline.

Lee told a seminar organized by Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies she had met with a senior White House adviser in Washington on Wednesday and came away "a bit pessimistic (rather) than optimistic when it comes to appointing a special envoy".

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said it currently had no updates to offer on the issue.