Did You Know: No Need For A Passport?

I will repost the response I used on the bluefur website: “As such, it is much easier to take a spontaneous trip to the States.” Do people actually just wake up one day and say, hey let’s go to the States today? What is wrong with a little forward thinking and planning? Spontaneity and convenience is not all it’s cracked up to be. “The pilot program will consist of about 500 volunteers and if successful, the EDL will be offered for an additional fee to the rest of BC. This program will cost taxpayers about $4 million.” Are you saying the pilot project will cost $4 million or the fully implemented plan, once it’s rolled out, will cost $4 million? If it’s simply the pilot project costing $4 million, what will the fully-realized plan cost taxpayers? In BC? In the whole of Canada (once it is rolled out across the board)? “However, inside the card will be an embedded wireless chip (RFID) that contains a specific identification number which can then be cross-referenced with a national database containing your name, address, birthdate, and so on.” The “so on” part is what I’m concerned about. How much information is to be stored on this card? If it’s simply the information that is currently stored on my driver’s license then it doesn’t bother me too much. However, if there is any additional information contained on this card (i.e. biometric identifiers, medical records, financial information, etc.) then I would be more than leery to allow U.S. authorities to “data mine” my personal information. However, it’s probably already in their hands via some clandestine electronic method. I don’t travel to the US and have no intention of doing so. I have no need for this type of driver’s license. Will there be two types of licenses - one for people wishing to travel to the US and those not wishing to travel to the US? I highly doubt it due to the costs involved. I personally have zero use for this type of card. This is simply the next step towards a North American Union ID card. The Canada we know is slowly being destroyed by incrementalism. “Incrementalism is a method of working by adding to a project using many small (often unplanned) changes instead of a few (extensively planned) large jumps.” - wikipedia