No. This is why I say over and over that I find this whole debate of the past year just astonishing. In every area of life we have to identify ourselves. If I go to talk to CRA, the revenue people, and say that I want to talk about my tax returns, they're not going to say sure and start talking to me without asking me who I am. I have to identify myself to them.
The whole Privacy Act is grounded in the idea of identity because, by definition, to keep something private and let only some people access that information means you have some kind of an identification system that excludes some but allows others. The whole idea of privacy requires and necessitates an identification system.
I don't know why we've suddenly developed this aversion to identification systems when they are completely embedded throughout Canadian society. I don't just mean voting. To access student records, you have to prove to the university that you are who you say you are. When I go to the bank every time, they won't just let me walk in and say, “I don't have any ID here today, but by the way give me my money.”