Canada Moves To Make Asset Freezing Under Emergencies Act Permanent
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.
Trudeau’s deputy, Chrystia Freeland, who is also a director of Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum, says she plans to make her emergency powers permanent. pic.twitter.com/g8JTCwzmqX
— Ezra Levant 🍁🚛 (@ezralevant) February 19, 2022
“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. – summit news via zerohedge.com
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Of course they will. Its almost like the Canadian Government wanted this protest to happen soo they had a reason to do everything they are doing now. Hmmm…
Once governments have a taste of power, they will never give it up completely. Expect to see the Emergencies Act used more often. It can be used for an entire week before Parliament gets a chance to vote on it. You can crush a lot of people’s rights in one week.
I would think unions might object to this. Sadly, the NDP, the former voice of the working person, is now fully onboard with these tyrannical edicts. I wonder when polling numbers will make the party regret this. This is very bad.
This can only hurt the Liberals and NDP and strengthen the Conservative and Bloc Quebecois parties.