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Canadian immigration miminster Denis Coderre has proposed a national ID card with biometric storage to be used at border checkpoints. There's a good quote from IT professor Andrew Clement pointing out that any ID system is only as good as the proof required to obtain it, which is to say not secure at all. Coderre dismisses such arguments, saying the card will prevent identity theft - though he doesn't say how.

Mr. Coderre appeared before the House of Commons immigration committee to formally ask for their recommendations on a national ID card, but made it clear he favours it. He told MPs the time when they could cross the U.S. border with a driver's license "may well be over."

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Even with a central database, such a card would not be much of a deterrent for terrorists, he said. Anyone would be able to obtain such a card by presenting other fraudulent documents such as a birth certificate.

"That's one of the big flaws," [University of Toronto information technology professor Andrew Clement] said. "The creation of the secure card depends on the presentation of much less secure documents."

- Globe News, Coderre pushes Ottawa to adopt national ID cards.