Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the comments from my colleague across the floor, but is he not worried?
We know how the registration of guns has gone. It was supposed to cost $2 million and it cost $1 billion for registration. The member talked about the technology of today. Is he not worried about this type of a card, if the technology is good enough to produce an identification card such as the one about which we are talking?
It is good that we are having this discussion and that is why we brought this motion to the House of Commons.
Is he not worried that with the technology of today, if somebody loses a wallet or a card, people who are smart enough will be able to decode and use that card? They will have all the information on the person and that person will lose his or her privacy. We have thousands and thousand of social insurance numbers which the government cannot control those.
I am not trying to blame the government, but those are facts of life. Can we afford to make the mistake of having a card that will give information to people who we surely do not want to have it? Why be dictated to by the Americans? They are not willing to have a card like this yet they are suggesting that we should. Where is our sovereignty as Canadians? That is the question that we have to ask to ourselves. That is why it is good to have this discussion. Could the member comment on that?