I don't pretend to have expertise in biometrics, but with every new tool that our government explores, I often give a caution to pay attention that particular groups not be profiled unnecessarily, that we have systems in place. This is something someone asked me the other day. For example, if immigrants or asylum seekers, regardless of which immigration class they are coming in under, had to go through a biometric system and eventually they became Canadian citizens, would we not be creating two-tier citizenship? After all, those of us who were born in Canada would not have gone through a biometric system and that information wouldn't exist.
On October 15th, 2012. See this statement in context.