"The use of facial recognition technology by the RCMP to search through massive repositories of Canadians who are innocent of any suspicion of crime presents a serious violation of privacy," Therrien said in the report.

"A government institution cannot collect personal information from a third party agent if that third party agent collected the information unlawfully."

Maybe we should get the Facebook Fact Checkers onto them?

FALSE: “After two years, fatal and serious crashes went up by over 11 per cent.”

FALSE: “They had to change nearly everything back,” Sayed said.

HALF TRUE ( the writer and interviewee are conflating higher speed limits with high speeds): “High speeds increase the chance of collision, but it will also increase the severity – it’s physics, it doesn’t take an engineer to tell you that.”

FALSE: “Everywhere speed limits have been raised, serious and fatal crashes have increased, Sayed said.”

“My question is, how do you get into that position? How have you been on the force on this long, and how are you going to get so agitated that fast over a speeding ticket? I mean, are you serious? ..."

WHO: Think of the Children. " "Today and every day, 3,000 children are killed or injured on the world's roads. This is a crisis that is man-made and is entirely preventable," she said."

"To clarify the role of our program and concisely define our service delivery on BC’s provincial highways, provincial traffic operations will be now called: BC Highway Patrol. We believe this new name more clearly distinguishes our role and service delivery from the municipal and detachment traffic services."

"Currently, ICBC can refuse to renew or issue a driver's license for outstanding fines issued under the Motor Vehicle Act and the Liquor Control and Licensing Act.

The change that will include pandemic-related fines to the "refuse to issue" program will come into force on July 1."