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It may seem innocuous, but the government and private corporations could use these devices to track people's movements. It may sound paranoid, but this is bound to be abused.

This is the first time that the festival is sponsored completely by local corporations, not the government.

If you think of the market value of all of the corporations that trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, the vast majority of the value of those businesses is tied up in intangible assets and intellectual property. It's because of that -- that these values are primarily intangible and intellectual -- that the need for this specialized area is coming about.

Lula is going to build a government based on alliances, a government in which businessmen, bankers, trade unions -- the whole of society -- will participate. The trademark of Lula's government will be participation.

It's not for the government to say that's not a legitimate trade-off to make. Canadians need to question the idea that just because something implicates health that government intervention is justified.