Canada has moved to make the asset freezing part of its Emergencies Act, which was used to target supporters of the Freedom Convoy protests, a permanent fixture.
Wow, who saw that one coming?
In order to stop what the Trudeau regime referred to as “illegal blockades,” the government threatened to freeze the bank accounts of demonstrators and anyone who donated money to them.
Under the Emergencies Act, bank are required to freeze accounts without a court order, while all crowdfunding platforms and payment providers are mandated to provide information to FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada).
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that many of the measures imposed ‘temporarily’ to deal with the protesters (after they had been suitably demonized as violent extremists) will now become permanent.
“We used all the tools that we had prior to the invocation of the Emergencies Act and we determined we needed some additional tools,” Freeland announced
“Some of those tools we will be putting forward measures to put those tools permanently in place. The authorities of FINTRAC, I believe, do need to be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms and payment platforms,” she added.
Ronald Reagan has been proven right again.
“Nothing lasts longer than a temporary government program.”
Meanwhile, as we previously highlighted, such measures are likely to exclude protected classes (basically anyone who isn’t a native Canadian or white), with groups such as immigrants and refugees enjoying an exemption.
Isn’t that similar to what China does? Don’t they have a credit system to blacklist you if you get out of line? They can control you!
We are seeing tyranny in Canada, its coming here soon. Just wait, they are already censoring speech, next it will be your money!
How would it be legal in the US to do this if there is such a thing as unreasonable search/seizure? In the digital world they have nothing stopping them from this. Freezing your assets is along the same path as seizing them.
The Canadians had the opportunity to escape this type of tyranny when we did…
They chose safety over freedom and have been paying the price ever since!
No Emergency !!! Only Govt Over reach !!!
Oh I get it kind of like 666 you know the mark of the beast don’t get to eat buy sell or anything without that mark! You see this is a global luciferian conspiracy if you haven’t realized that yet you need to put your head back in the sand.