MP Leslyn Lewis issues warnings on UN and smart cities

A Conservative MP who has twice contended for the social gathering management is backing a petition for Canada to withdraw from the UN and warning that sensible cities threaten privateness and autonomy.

“Over 60,000 Canadians have now signed a petition calling on Canada to guard our nationwide sovereignty by withdrawing from the UN and its subsidiary organizations,” tweeted Lewis.

“The petition stays open for signature till February seventh.”

Petition e-4623 was initiated by Doug Porter of Burnaby, BC on October 10 2023 and sponsored by Lewis. It says Canada’s membership within the UN and subsidiaries such because the World Well being Group “imposes damaging penalties on the folks of Canada, far outweighing any advantages.”

“Agenda 2030 and its operational ‘Sustainable Improvement Objectives’ (SDG), Complete Sexuality Training (CSE), UN Judicial Overview, Worldwide Well being Rules (IHR), One Well being and related applications are being quickly applied, absent the attention and consent of the Individuals or their elected representatives;” the petition states.

“SDGs have damaging impacts on probably each side of life, together with non secular and cultural values, familial relations, training, diet, little one growth, property rights, financial and agricultural productiveness, transportation, journey, well being, knowledgeable consent, privateness and bodily autonomy.”

The petition complains that “normalization of sexual values and actions with regard to kids” and “intrusive common surveillance” had been potential penalties of the previous and served the curiosity of worldwide organizations greater than Canadians.

Greater than 66,000 Canadians have signed the petition, led by greater than 22,000 Ontarians and 15,000 Albertans.

In a publish to Twitter (“X”) made Wednesday afternoon, the Liberal Occasion referred to as on Conservative Chief Pierre Poilievre to denounce the thought.

“In these difficult occasions, we have to be centered on working with our world companions, however one in every of Pierre Poilievre’s MPs thinks we should always withdraw from the United Nations,” the publish learn.

“Pierre Poilievre must denounce this reckless thought instantly.”

The publish included an image of a November 7 headline from PressProgress that learn, “Far-Proper Conspiracy Teams Enhance Conservative MP’s Petition to Take away Canada From The United Nations.”

Lewis additionally expressed considerations with sensible cities prior to now week. On December 30, she launched a 17-minute video on Substack to stipulate the difficulty.

“On this video, I dig into the considerations round privateness and autonomy and the place all of this might lead. We should perceive the implications of those applied sciences earlier than we’re to this point down the highway that we’re unable to show again.”

The video included a graphic the Metropolis of Edmonton submitted to Infrastructure Canada in response to the Sensible Cities Problem.

It stated, “The privateness and safety of our residents is prime of thoughts and information is securely managed between companions.” It additionally recalled the Sidewalks Lab venture Justin Trudeau introduced for Toronto in 2017 in partnership with Google, which was deserted in the course of the pandemic.

“The best concern is the potential for elevated monitoring, surveillance, and information assortment capabilities, whether or not it’s monitoring actual time location, private preferences or behavioural patterns. This expertise inherently raises a bunch of privateness dangers and considerations,” Lewis defined.

“The larger the town venture, the larger the information pool must be. The extra information collected, the better the chance to private privateness.”

Lewis stated the sensible metropolis menace to autonomy can be to restrict private vitality use, which might constrain freedom. A wise meter might constrain air conditioner use in a warmth wave or heaters throughout a chilly snap in winter. Knowledge from sensible fridge monitoring may discourage use of carbon-intensive merchandise.

“They [smart cities technologies] are introduced in with the promise of added comfort and making the planet more healthy, however they’ll simply be utilized by these in energy to implement limits and prohibit use to coerce adjustments in behaviours and selections that can result in a net-zero carbon impartial financial system,” Lewis warned.

A CSIS report in March stated that sensible cities might be hacked by international powers to reap delicate information and intervene in elections.