In this video Dan Dicks of Press For Truth breaks down what this really means: the foundation for centralized surveillance, financial tracking, behaviour monitoring, and programmable control.

The "modernization" spin is just the cover story.

Despite nearly 3 million Brits signing a petition against it, the plan is moving forward anyway.

And Canada is already in lockstep, with the EU-Canada Digital Partnership and the new GC Wallet app already under development.

This isn't coming tomorrow… it's being built right now.