Parking in Waterloo Region

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The licence plate is a marker (which remains the property of the provincial government) for an automobile, not a person.  The data collected states that vehicle was here at this time.  It records no information on the driver and/or passengers.  If there is an infraction, the registered owner of the vehicle gets a ticket.  If there is no infraction, I couldn't care less that the city knows where/when my car was, nor do I care how long they keep that info.  The Government isn't able to track and store someone's location, just the car's.  If my wife takes my car Uptown, it records the same data as if I or my daughter had my car.  [Rogers (a private, for-profit corporation) can track my every move as my cell phone contract is with them... that scares me more, but no one ever talks about that]

If they had a parking lot like this near a mosque and the government was able to track the cars that routinely go to the mosque do you think there might be a problem or potential for the government to track movements of people.

I don't want to beat a dead horse, but yes, if we had a parking lot near a mosque the gov't could make an inference that the driver of that vehicle on that particular day may be muslim.  What is by-law enforcement going to do with that information, except to ticket cars who stay too long.

Wanna know another way to find muslims?  Stand outside of a mosque parking lot and write down the licence plates* (Disclaimer - In light of the tragic events in Quebec City yesterday, I highly advise that this would be a horrible idea... but legally, there is nothing wrong with any nutjob recording licence plates).  If the gov't really cared, we would have CSIS agents doing that.  This is Waterloo by-law, not the Fed's.

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