Tax Talk With The Canadian Taxpayers Federation

British Columbia is pushing ahead with a new B.C. Services card - a new ID and information management card that will combine health, driver and other government information, potentially putting your personal information at risk. This will cost a fortune - and is being done by the same government that bungled a new Intergrated Case Management system and the BCeSIS student information boondoggle. Worse yet, the rest of Canada may follow suit. B.C. Director Jordan Bateman is joined by Freedom of Information and Privacy Association executive director Vincent Gogolek to talk about the ID cards - and why government seems so willing to suck up more of our information, without revealing any of theirs. Plus our usual features - Comment of the Cast, Waste of the Week and Stat of the Cast - and stay tuned for a post-end theme song "Easter Egg": the 156 books read by a Manitoba bureaucrat while cahsing taxpayer cheques for three years.