Canadian government urged to block Thomson Reuters data deal with US ICE

US agency is to pay Canadian media company US$125m for use of investigative database to detect ‘immigration fraud’

Olivia Bowden in Toronto

The Guardian: 24 Jul 2026

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/24/canada-government-mark-carney-block-data-sharing-deal-thomson-reuters-us-ice-avi-lewis

A Canadian federal opposition party leader has called on Mark Carney’s government to block the latest data-sharing deal between US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Canadian media company Thomson Reuters.

Avi Lewis, the federal leader of the New Democratic party (NDP), demanded on Tuesday that Ottawa address the contract and further restrict Canadian corporations from doing business with ICE, after Canada’s National Observer news website reported on the deal.

“My blood ran cold when I read about this development,” he added in a statement to the Guardian. “Complicity between Canadian corporations and ICE should absolutely be illegal.”

Under the US$125m (£94m) deal, ICE will pay the technology and content conglomerate to access its Clear database – which includes property records, social media and geolocation information – in order to identify “voter fraud” and “immigration fraud”, according to reports.

In a procurement document obtained by 404 Media, Thomson Reuters says it is the only company that allows ICE to have access to the “continuous monitoring” of millions of people.

Thomson Reuters’ contracts with ICE date back to 2015, when it first began providing US officials with access to Clear in order to track people for deportation. Critics have long alleged that the databases were being used to facilitate human rights abuses.

The latest contract, however, is the first to state that Clear software will be used to support the Trump administration’s objectives of addressing supposed “voter fraud”.

So it's not only the Russians interfering in domestic US politics ?

After what the Canadian government did to 'The Truckers' it should come as no surprise to anyone that they are under total control of the "deep state"

@scottiejohn

You don't know what the Canadian government did to the Canadian Truckers

during the "Covidiocy" ???

34 minutes ago, johng said:

@scottiejohn

You don't know what the Canadian government did to the Canadian Truckers

during the "Covidiocy" ???

Why should I care, even if I knew, anything about an internal squabble (which I assume it was) in a country on the other side of the world that had NO impact on my life here in Thailand?

Edited 2 minutes ago2 min by scottiejohn