Tue May 17, 2022 – 6:28 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) MP and leadership candidate Leslyn Lewis warned that digital currencies being promoted by some Canadian politicians could be a precursor to a “social credit” system.
In a platform update posted to her leadership campaign website titled “Can Digital Currency save us,” Lewis wrote that Canadian officials should not be putting all “their eggs in a digital basket that is ripe for even worse abuses.”
“I’m not against Bitcoin, even though it is an incredibly volatile commodity. Canadians should be free to make the financial decisions that they believe are best for them. But I am extremely concerned about the repercussions of digital currency in general,” Lewis wrote.
“The wide acceptance and daily use of digital currency,” however, Lewis added, “is the quickest way for the government to implement a social credit system.”
Lewis earlier had called out the promotion of and application of “Digital IDs” in Canada and abroad, saying if elected party leader she will fight them tooth and nail.
In her recent update, Lewis wrote that as people’s current digital devices such as smartphones already share “way too
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