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Another vacation controversy for PM Trudeau leads to fiery exchange in House of Commons

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2 years ago

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It’s been said Canadian PM Justin Trudeau simply can’t leave the country without embarrassing himself.

That may not be entirely true, though it does seem his frequent international (and cross continent) vacations are likely not planned by a master strategist.

From his relaxing conflict of interest violation on Aga Khan’s Island to the adrenalin rush of marking the very first Truth and Reconciliation Day on a surf board, it’s getting more and more difficult for the PM and his family to enjoy their ‘lifestyles of the rich and famous’ while convincing Canadians they care deeply about ‘the little guy’.

Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre enjoys pointing this out almost as much as the Trudeaus like jetting away from Canadian airspace.  The result was this fiery and entertaining Question Period exchange which Canadians who aren’t fortunate enough to be on screen planning their next vacation will likely get a charge out of.

From the Facebook page of Pierre Poilievre

I asked Justin Trudeau four times how much he paid to stay on the beach with his Trudeau Foundation buddies.
I got 0 answers.
While Canadians struggle to put food on the table, Trudeau is answering for the second time in as many months why he stayed at a place that costs more per night than the average Canadian makes in a month.
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After 15 years as a TV reporter with Global and CBC and as news director of RDTV in Red Deer, Duane set out on his own 2008 as a visual storyteller. During this period, he became fascinated with a burgeoning online world and how it could better serve local communities. This fascination led to Todayville, launched in 2016.

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Published on February 23, 2025

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Wales is that part of the UK the authorities have picked as the testbed for the first citywide deployment of what some consider to currently be the most radical form of mass biometric surveillance in public places – “AI”-powered live facial recognition.
What is likely to be the reason behind the “trial,” privacy campaigners are warning, is the eventual permanent deployment of this type of biometric surveillance throughout the country.
South Wales Police said that Cardiff will be covered by a network of CCTV cameras with facial recognition tech embedded in them, while the excuse is providing security during the international Six Nations rugby event. But the police also characterized the move as “semi-permanent.”
This appears to be a distinction between what the police in the UK have used thus far to carry out surveillance based on live facial recognition: vans with one camera.
The decision to move to position a host of cameras in the central zone of Cardiff makes this a significant expansion of the technique.
And while the police are reassuring citizens that expanding live facial recognition “really enhances” law enforcement’s ability to do their job –  the Big Brother Watch privacy group slammed the move as a “shocking” development and the creation of an “Orwellian biometric surveillance zone.”
And while capturing everyone’s biometric data, and in that way, according to Big Brother Watch’s Senior Advocacy Officer Madeleine Stone, turning Brits into “walking barcodes” and “a nation of suspects” – in terms of solving crime, this is proving to be a waste of public money.
“This network of facial recognition cameras will make it impossible for Cardiff residents and visitors to opt out of a biometric police identity check,” Stone underlined.
And yet, over the three years that live facial recognition has been in use at sporting venues (only) – the use of the technology has not led to any arrests.
“No other democracy in the world spies on its population with live facial recognition in this cavalier and chilling way,” Stone warned, adding, “South Wales Police must immediately stop this dystopian trial.”
The technology works by capturing the faces of every person passing through an area covered, in real time, to then compare them to a database of those described in reports as “wanted criminals.”
However, when South Wales Police spoke about who is on their “watchlist,” it also included people “banned from the area” and those “who pose a risk to the public.”
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