Bruce Pardy: The Mandates of the Managerial State

Bruce Pardy: The Mandates of the Managerial State
Government intrudes incrementally, writes Bruce Pardy. Digital ID, for instance, will be offered as a convenient choice. Annegret Hilse/Reuters
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Forget the members of Parliament who may have colluded with foreign governments. The real menace, the RCMP seem to think, are House of Commons pages. MPs suspected of foreign election interference should not be identified, the Mounties have insisted, but House of Commons staff must be fingerprinted. Serious threats to the country are hidden away, while innocent people are subjected to state surveillance. If you want to see how the managerial state (dys)functions, Canada is the place to be.