30 thoughts on “Sun announces “New deal to keep your financial info protected””
I think my brain’s going to explode.
Meanwhile, in other news, Giuseppe Valiante reported today that Stephen Harper thinks Keystone XL is a really bad idea, that the guy on Canadian Tire money was one of our best presidents ever and that the moon is indeed made of cheese.
Well, at least the Sun readers now know they have no worries.
How irresponsible is this reporting? How many lives are affected by such sloppy journalism?
Is anyone accountable here?
Another Jesus, Joseph and Mary moment!
my head is pounding so hard I feel nauseous.
When a citizen is sold out to a foreign nation, all trust is gone. The papers can print whatever they want, it’s just filler to sell their publications. The casualties will start coming home after July 1, and on through 2017. The only way to survive is to not believe anything put out in the media. The US has no credibility. They will change laws and agreements relentlessly to exert power over other nations and/or steal resources from them. So sad that an administration does not represent the people it governs. My husband’s family is embarrassed and astounded at FATCA. I will never cross the border again. If my husband chooses to, I will say my good-byes and accept I may not see him again. Last summer a zealous border guard corralled him into a room and interrogated him regarding information in his data base from 1968. My husband is not a criminal, is not wanted by any law enforcement, but did act on his conscience at a young age. My point being the US government have/and continue to transfer information from microfiche- and with IT today, there is nothing hidden from them. Just be warned.
Kafka’s writing has inspired the term “Kafkaesque”, used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of his work, particularly Der Process and “Die Verwandlung”. Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu which evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation, and helplessness. Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape the situation. Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
Simple acid test – Does the CRA pass data automatically to the IRS? Yes.
That headline is like “Germany announces new work centres to help to encourage people to develop their own economic freedom” or the slogan in German is ‘Arbeit Macht Frei.’
It’s ridiculous.
@Don
Don’t worry, all this stress will disappear once we’ve been through the retraining camps.
OMG, you all are soooooo funny. Thanks for the comedy!
“Which will confer with the IRS” LOLOL! “confer”
duel citizens? again..hilarious!
I am laughing but, reading that does make your head spin. What sort of pretzel did this person have to twist their brain into to write that? Can they ever recover?
I’m so glad the banks fought so hard for this new deal to protect my financial information! Silly me I thought we already had such protections but, no we didn’t. We needed a deal with the U.S. to further protect our financial information so they could impose a much better law! Well, allow me to be the first to say I have been fighting for all the wrong things for two whole years! I should have been championing such a wonderful privacy “deal” After all Canada surely couldn’t have upheld their silly current laws without a deal with the U.S.A.
Rereading Kafka might not be a bad idea right now.
Boy, talk about propaganda spin! Amazing!
Can we post the link to this article somewhere (or have I missed it). This article desperately needs mosquitoes!
@ White Kat,
I can’t find it by googling or a search on the Sun’s website. Maybe it was only in the print edition?
@ WhiteKat
Unfortunately this article was not deemed worthy of preservation in digital perpetuity by the Sun editors. I don’t believe it even made it to the web at all. We will, however, frame it with acid-free matting and UV-filtering glass as a superb example of one of the following:
1. Superlative Conservative spin-doctoring (despite the typos and grammatical errors)
2. Greasy McDonald’s brain-anaesthetic (where this specimen was collected by my brother)
No cheating; you can only pick one category.
Well then, hows about some angry emails to the Ottawa Sun!
@ WhiteKat
Sure, you can try, if you can dial-down your IQ far enough to have your letter accepted by their editors. They don’t like competition.
It looks like a full page ad – maybe from the Harper government?
CANADA – U.S. WILL KEEP IT PRIVATE ! (unless you’re a certain kind of Canadian citizen)
@ serfingUSA
Anyone remember the editorial cartoon years ago showing the floor-plan of the Bush White House with Fox News occupying a large corner of the West Wing?
Love your handle, btw.
@Deckard1138
You are so funny . 🙂
Why haven’t there been at least 500000 renounce…relinquish in the past 2 years . Warning signs every where… Germany 1938. …… Have courage ..research.. Make courageous decisions unlike the government
Jeez, my government has been telling me for years that I must be very careful to safeguard my personal data. You know, stuff like be on the lookout for phishing type emails asking for account numbers and passwords, telephone scams targeting seniors, overzealous store clerks asking for SIN and so on.
Now I can just relax because the Canadian government has sub-contracted it all out to the IRS! No worries mate!
@Robert. many many people have been trying to get the true number of renunciations/relinquishments/greencard handbacks for years. the USG cannot or will not release this information. Anecdotal evidence suggests these numbers are 10x higher than published figures. Victoria Ferauge correctly calls this the “weak person’s weapon”. it is the only one we have to free our overseas families and ourselves from tyranny and slow financial suicide. and yes, it takes courage. it is life altering and you go through a long process of grieving at the loss.
Frankly, I am still shocked that Canada is throwing 1M people under the bus. Canada was our best hope to stand up and say ‘no’. Countries from all over the world that like to pronounce their respect for privacy and human rights (UK, Canada, Switzerland, EU…) are rolling over and changing THEIR laws to accommodate the US demands. In the face of big money (30% fines) and economic power, resistance is futile against the Empire. The Canadian IGA must be tested in Canadian courts – if that challenge fails – there is no hope. One can only pray the Canadian courts do the right thing.
I think my brain’s going to explode.
Meanwhile, in other news, Giuseppe Valiante reported today that Stephen Harper thinks Keystone XL is a really bad idea, that the guy on Canadian Tire money was one of our best presidents ever and that the moon is indeed made of cheese.
Well, at least the Sun readers now know they have no worries.
How irresponsible is this reporting? How many lives are affected by such sloppy journalism?
Is anyone accountable here?
Another Jesus, Joseph and Mary moment!
my head is pounding so hard I feel nauseous.
When a citizen is sold out to a foreign nation, all trust is gone. The papers can print whatever they want, it’s just filler to sell their publications. The casualties will start coming home after July 1, and on through 2017. The only way to survive is to not believe anything put out in the media. The US has no credibility. They will change laws and agreements relentlessly to exert power over other nations and/or steal resources from them. So sad that an administration does not represent the people it governs. My husband’s family is embarrassed and astounded at FATCA. I will never cross the border again. If my husband chooses to, I will say my good-byes and accept I may not see him again. Last summer a zealous border guard corralled him into a room and interrogated him regarding information in his data base from 1968. My husband is not a criminal, is not wanted by any law enforcement, but did act on his conscience at a young age. My point being the US government have/and continue to transfer information from microfiche- and with IT today, there is nothing hidden from them. Just be warned.
“duel citizens”…
OMG.
Todays Word: “Kafkaesque”
Kafka’s writing has inspired the term “Kafkaesque”, used to describe concepts and situations reminiscent of his work, particularly Der Process and “Die Verwandlung”. Examples include instances in which bureaucracies overpower people, often in a surreal, nightmarish milieu which evokes feelings of senselessness, disorientation, and helplessness. Characters in a Kafkaesque setting often lack a clear course of action to escape the situation. Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
Simple acid test – Does the CRA pass data automatically to the IRS? Yes.
That headline is like “Germany announces new work centres to help to encourage people to develop their own economic freedom” or the slogan in German is ‘Arbeit Macht Frei.’
It’s ridiculous.
@Don
Don’t worry, all this stress will disappear once we’ve been through the retraining camps.
OMG, you all are soooooo funny. Thanks for the comedy!
“Which will confer with the IRS” LOLOL! “confer”
duel citizens? again..hilarious!
I am laughing but, reading that does make your head spin. What sort of pretzel did this person have to twist their brain into to write that? Can they ever recover?
I’m so glad the banks fought so hard for this new deal to protect my financial information! Silly me I thought we already had such protections but, no we didn’t. We needed a deal with the U.S. to further protect our financial information so they could impose a much better law! Well, allow me to be the first to say I have been fighting for all the wrong things for two whole years! I should have been championing such a wonderful privacy “deal” After all Canada surely couldn’t have upheld their silly current laws without a deal with the U.S.A.
Rereading Kafka might not be a bad idea right now.
Boy, talk about propaganda spin! Amazing!
Can we post the link to this article somewhere (or have I missed it). This article desperately needs mosquitoes!
@ White Kat,
I can’t find it by googling or a search on the Sun’s website. Maybe it was only in the print edition?
@ WhiteKat
Unfortunately this article was not deemed worthy of preservation in digital perpetuity by the Sun editors. I don’t believe it even made it to the web at all. We will, however, frame it with acid-free matting and UV-filtering glass as a superb example of one of the following:
1. Superlative Conservative spin-doctoring (despite the typos and grammatical errors)
2. Greasy McDonald’s brain-anaesthetic (where this specimen was collected by my brother)
No cheating; you can only pick one category.
Well then, hows about some angry emails to the Ottawa Sun!
@ WhiteKat
Sure, you can try, if you can dial-down your IQ far enough to have your letter accepted by their editors. They don’t like competition.
It looks like a full page ad – maybe from the Harper government?
CANADA – U.S. WILL KEEP IT PRIVATE ! (unless you’re a certain kind of Canadian citizen)
@ serfingUSA
Anyone remember the editorial cartoon years ago showing the floor-plan of the Bush White House with Fox News occupying a large corner of the West Wing?
Love your handle, btw.
@Deckard1138
You are so funny . 🙂
Why haven’t there been at least 500000 renounce…relinquish in the past 2 years . Warning signs every where… Germany 1938. …… Have courage ..research.. Make courageous decisions unlike the government
Jeez, my government has been telling me for years that I must be very careful to safeguard my personal data. You know, stuff like be on the lookout for phishing type emails asking for account numbers and passwords, telephone scams targeting seniors, overzealous store clerks asking for SIN and so on.
Now I can just relax because the Canadian government has sub-contracted it all out to the IRS! No worries mate!
@Robert. many many people have been trying to get the true number of renunciations/relinquishments/greencard handbacks for years. the USG cannot or will not release this information. Anecdotal evidence suggests these numbers are 10x higher than published figures. Victoria Ferauge correctly calls this the “weak person’s weapon”. it is the only one we have to free our overseas families and ourselves from tyranny and slow financial suicide. and yes, it takes courage. it is life altering and you go through a long process of grieving at the loss.
Frankly, I am still shocked that Canada is throwing 1M people under the bus. Canada was our best hope to stand up and say ‘no’. Countries from all over the world that like to pronounce their respect for privacy and human rights (UK, Canada, Switzerland, EU…) are rolling over and changing THEIR laws to accommodate the US demands. In the face of big money (30% fines) and economic power, resistance is futile against the Empire. The Canadian IGA must be tested in Canadian courts – if that challenge fails – there is no hope. One can only pray the Canadian courts do the right thing.
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