Hitler's Methods Continue To Be Adopted By Federal Liberals

Comment by Bruce Hutton  July 14, 2003

Immigration Minister Denis Coderre has initiated implementation of national identity cards for Canadians.  He states Canada has two years to voluntarily implement this system before the international community forces us to do it.

When the Federal Government initiated the Canadian Firearms Act to facilitate firearms registry in this country, many were appalled they were using the same system initiated by German dictator Adolph Hitler to identify gun owners and ultimately disarm his citizenry. Interestingly enough, after invading Norway, Hitler used Norway's registry system to locate firearms and disarm the Norwegian public.  This caused a lengthy delay in arming the underground resistance in that country.

Now the Federal Liberals are following another of Hitler's "control methods" by introducing a system of identifying all Canadian citizens though national identity cards that will contain "relevant information" about the cardholder.  In Nazi Germany and ultimately in nations conquered by the Third Reicht, people had their "identification papers that contained relevant information" that had to be produced, on demand, to agents of the "government".

Any system even remotely similar to this should be totally unacceptable in a country that purports to be a free democracy.  In fact, Canadians should be furious.  But Canadian apathy strikes again. It seems Coderre will implement this system with little or no resistance from the general public.

Why would the international community be able "…to force us to have identification cards"?  We already have a passport system for international travel.  When will the Federal Liberal Government start leading in this country for Canadians and stop following United Nations initiatives that are not in the best interests of a true democracy?

The federal gun registry (a U.N. initiative) is a bureaucratic nightmare and taxpayer's money-pit that gives no return on investment.  Firearms registration doesn't make Canadians safer and it doesn't reduce crime, violence and suicides.  It has already cost Canadian taxpayers over one billion dollars and is 50,000% over budget.

If the firearms registry cost taxpayers over one billion for a group of 1.9 million gun owners (and it is only 60% completed), imagine what identification cards will cost for 33 million Canadians. Which Quebec Liberal supporter is going to get the lucrative contract to produce these cards and which Quebec advertising agency will get the lucrative contract "to sell the idea" to the Canadian public?

We are a comparatively non-violent, peaceful nation.  When the people of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Ireland, and the United States of America (for that matter, the rest of the world) have national identity cards, revisit the issue in Canada.  Otherwise, stay out of our private lives!