DAN ALBAS – CRA employee became ‘romantically involved with a biker gang member and used her access to give the gang personal information’
In my November 2018 MP report, I focused on newly discovered revelations that Statistics Canada was “ demanding access to certain Canadians personal financial and banking information, including all transactions along with bank account balances without citizens’ consent or even notification that this is going on ”. At that time, I raised this issue in the House of Commons and no surprise, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fully supported this effort by a government agency -- to take your personal financial information -- without your consent or even knowledge. Later, at the Industry Committee, the minister responsible for Statistics Canada admitted that he had not been made aware of this program nor had he signed off on it, as is required under legislation. After the Privacy Commissioner announced that he would launch a formal investigation into these proposed actions from Statistics Canada, the project was put on hold. Why do I mention this incident today? Earlier this week, Bl...