The Canada-EU digital partnership promoting...

Editor's note: ...interoperable digital identity wallets and AI collaboration, underscores the urgent need to reject digital IDs outright. These centralized systems heighten privacy risks by enabling pervasive government and private corporate surveillance (see The Fast-Approaching Digital Control Grid) through everyday devices, tracking movements, transactions, and interactions without true consent. Key private companies involved in the EUDI Wallet consortia include Idemia, Thales, Namirial, Amadeus, Signicat, Intesi Group, iProov, Lissi, Procivis, SITA, Indicio, iDAKTO, Izertis, Regula, Raidiam, and Yubico, among hundreds of others across the POTENTIAL, NOBID (like in "no bid" contract?), EWC, DC4EU, APTITUDE, and WE BUILD projects. They invite abuse via mass data collection, potential exclusion of dissenters, discrimination, and dystopian social-credit-like controls, while exposing users to catastrophic breaches, identity theft, and AI biases. Disguised as convenience, such frameworks erode autonomy, normalize opaque governance, and suffer mission creep into broader surveillance—making refusal essential to preserve privacy as a fundamental right.

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The EU and Canada Collaborate on Digital IDs

By Martin Armstrong | December 12, 2025

The latest agreement between the European Union and Canada to collaborate on mutually recognized digital IDs is simply another step in what I have been warning about for years. Whenever government confidence collapses, the political class tightens control. Digital ID is not about convenience; it is about tracking capital and controlling movement as the global sovereign-debt crisis accelerates.

The danger here is obvious. Mutual recognition means a unified framework. They're building a foundation to establish a GLOBAL digital ID. Once these systems talk to one another, you have created the architecture for a worldwide database controlled by the political elite. This is precisely what the EU has been pushing with its Digital Services Act and the infamous "digital wallet" proposal. Now they are exporting it, just as they exported their disastrous ideas on Net Zero and financial regulation. Canada, collapsing economically and politically, is following Brussels into the abyss. [Editor's note: "They?" Who exactly is "they?"]

The EU and Canada will jointly test a pilot for digital identity wallets. Why do two separate continents need their systems to integrate? You cannot have a cross-border digital ID without a central authority. And once the state has the ability to monitor every transaction, every movement, every piece of identification, they will inevitably link this to taxation, travel permissions, banking access, and even political compliance. This is how governments always respond in the final stage of their fiscal life cycle. Rome imposed travel permits. The Soviet Union created the internal passport. Now the West is doing the same with better technology.

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In the final analysis these digital systems are aggressively being built out and there isn't much that can slow them down or prevent them from coming online. Central banks engage with digital IDs mainly for payment and compliance purposes, but governments and tech firms are the primary drivers of digital ID systems.

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