Thu Jan 13, 2022 – 10:06 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – A House of Commons ethics committee will look into why the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spied on 33 million cell phone users without their consent, supposedly to determine population movement patterns during COVID lockdowns.
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) and Bloc Québécois MPs were successful in demanding that the Commons ethics committee hold hearings as soon as possible into the spying of Canadians.
CPC MP John Brassard said that the spying was “done in secret,” and that he filed a complaint with Canada’s federal Privacy Commissioner.
The news of the ethics committee investigation comes less than a month after Canada’s federal government admitted it covertly tracked the cell phones of 33 million Canadians throughout the COVID crisis, using cell tower data for months.
The secret tracking program was done under the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), which 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,” said Johnson, who also said the program
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