Wed Dec 22, 2021 – 3:21 pm EST
OTTAWA, Ontario (LifeSiteNews) — Canada’s federal government admitted it covertly tracked the cell phones of 33 million Canadians throughout the COVID crisis, using cell tower data to determine population movement patterns.
According to a report from Blacklock’s Reporter, a secret tracking program initiated by the Canadian federal government of Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that ran for months was disclosed this Monday.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) claimed the tracking was done to understand the “public’s responsiveness during lockdown measures.”
According to Mark Johnson, a spokesman for PHAC, the “urgency of the pandemic” justified the agency to collect and use “mobility data such as cell tower location data throughout the COVID-19 response.”
“It was to help understand possible links between the movement of populations within Canada and COVID,” claimed Johnson, who also said that the program has been made public to be “open and transparent.”
As reported by Blacklocks Reporter, Johnson said that the cost of the program was not made public, but the agency’s “Analysis and findings from the mobility data” has been “regularly shared with provinces and territories.”
Surveillance was done throughout the pandemic to “analyze population movement data to better understand the public’s responsiveness during lockdown measures,” said Johnson.
Indeed, the government of Canada currently has a federal contract notice tender out which indicates that PHAC wants to permanently use cell tower
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