Top secret military warning about digital IDs and digital currency sounds a lot like Canada's future
The most familiar-sounding idea in the memo? A monitored citizenry will limit its own speech, knowing it can be watched, and self-censorship is the most effective form of censorship there is.
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Article by Rebel News staff
Tonight, on The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra sits down with Juno News' Melanie Bennet to discuss the Canadian military's secret plans to deal with digital ID and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs).
The conversation comes after Bennet obtained a top-secret military brief, after more than a year of access-to-information requests, which included warnings that digital IDs and CBDCs are effective tools of authoritarian control. In Ezra's view, it's unclear if the documents are a warning or an invitation.
Bennet told Ezra the disclosure was especially difficult to obtain and was originally stamped top secret, only declassified because of an unrelated bureaucratic accident that forced it to be shared elsewhere. It's one of twelve documents requested; the rest, she said, may still surface. On its face, the memo reads as a warning about China, Russia and Belarus, and the "authoritarian toolkit" those governments are said to be building. But as Bennet told Ezra, her first impression reading it was that it describes what Canada itself is doing.
Ezra pressed her on the central bank digital currency question, calling a state-run digital currency a contradiction in terms — the ultimate libertarian invention, crypto, repurposed by government into the ultimate tool of control. Had a CBDC existed during the 2022 trucker convoy, the truckers' wallets could simply have been switched off, their donations blocked, their fuel and grocery purchases frozen, their location correlated with their spending.
Bennet confirmed the Bank of Canada had explored a CBDC before pulling back toward something called a retail stablecoin — still government-regulated, still backed by the Canadian dollar, but administered through private businesses. She noted the Bank of England published research this past July examining the "social benefits" of collecting CBDC data, meaning the interest hasn't disappeared.
The most chilling line in the memo was this: a monitored citizenry will limit its own speech, knowing it can be watched, and self-censorship is the most effective form of censorship there is. Ezra compared it to the old Soviet bloc, where citizens learned to speak candidly only with trusted friends and put on a public face everywhere else. Bennet said it was the line that struck her hardest, because it describes the anonymous sources — teachers, doctors, psychologists — who come to independent outlets like Juno News and Rebel News precisely because they're too afraid to speak on the record.
GUEST: Melanie Bennet, Juno News.
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Jane Vandervliet commented 2026-08-21 20:40:19 -0400The prime minister and premiers were re-elected in covid times because the main stream media refused to tell the truth about what was really happening. -
Bruce Atchison commented 2026-08-21 20:39:30 -0400On August 21, 1968, Soviet and Warsaw Pact tanks and soldiers crushed the Prague Spring freedom movement. Our governments in the west use subtle ways to do the same thing. And if things continue, we’ll become Chinada with its Social Credit system. All the more reason for Alberta to seceed.
