The triggering of an official invocation of the Canadian Emergency Measures Act to eliminate protests is stunning. Using the Emergency Act to target individual citizens in Canada, and their bank accounts, is yet again another level of astonishing. RESOURCES:
♦ Emergency Act HERE ♦ Summary Justification of Act HERE
♦ Press Release HERE ♦ Finance Minister Statement HERE
The Canadian Civil Liberties Association has announced their opposition to the government declaration:
I am carefully reviewing the details of the authorization because according to the public statements by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, they have authorized banks, financial institutions and insurance carriers to suspend the accounts of Canadian citizens based on their social media postings.
Yes, you read that correctly. Support of “blockades and/or occupations” are specifically noted.
Anyone in Canada (individual or business) who supports or “furthers” the Freedom Convoy or Freedom Protest on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other social media platform, is a target to have their bank accounts frozen and insurance policies nullified.
But wait, it gets worse.
Not only are people subject to get their bank accounts frozen, but the decision also to freeze the accounts is entirely up to the reviewer, and the reviewer is protected by the government from civil liability for their decision.
“Support” and “affiliated with” are loosely defined, and as a result a guy delivering pizzas to an Ottawa “occupation” truckdriver is also running the risk of seeing his bank account frozen simply for providing the food. I can see why the Canadian Civil Liberties Assocation would take issue with this declaration.
A banking employee who does not like the politics of a customer as revealed by a review of their social media postings, and merely “suspects” the account holder of supporting or furthering the action, can -without any liability- block the bank accounts of any customer or account holder; and they do not need to provide an explanation.
Review this statement carefully (emphasis mine):
Freeland …”the government is issuing an order with immediate effect, under the Emergencies Act, authorizing Canadian financial institutions to temporarily cease providing financial services where the institution suspects that an account is being used to further the illegal blockades and occupations. This order covers both personal and corporate accounts.
Third: we are directing Canadian financial institutions to review their relationships with anyone involved in the illegal blockades and report to the RCMP or CSIS.
As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account of an individual or business affiliated with these illegal blockades without a court order. In doing so, they will be protected against civil liability.
Federal government institutions will have a new broad authority to share relevant information with banks and other financial service providers to ensure that we can all work together to put a stop to the funding of these illegal blockades.
This is about following the money. This is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades. We are today serving notice: if your truck is being used in these protests, your corporate accounts will be frozen. The insurance on your vehicle will be suspended. Send your semi-trailers home. The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally making us all poorer.
We are announcing these measures after careful reflection. I spoke directly with the heads of Canadian banks and I would like to commend them for doing their part to uphold Canadian laws and Canadian democracy, and to protect our economy.” (more)
As you consider the term “illegal” in the paragraphs above, it is important to remember that the people who were hiding Anne Frank were breaking the law; and the people who killed Anne Frank were following the law. As history tells us, laws in/of themselves are not always moral or correct.
Americans really need to pay attention to this example. The Canadian government can force their citizens to take a medical procedure (Vaccination) in order to work, and if you protest that demand your bank accounts can be confiscated by the state. How is communist China worse?
Today, the Canadian government became the tanks in this famous image:
Truck Yeah ! Grateful for u in Arizona !
Are they really looking for a bloody revolution? As in French Revolution? They prove themselves (and not just Trudeau, but all the tyrants who have seized control and are exercising powers they do not have, were never intended to have, against their people) as bullies and Marxist Tyrants not worthy of having power, in everything they do.
I agree, Sundance and I thank you for your article. We need to be watching closely and carefully the governments of Canada, Australia, Austria, etc., for we have a similar group in charge in the US.
temporarily cease providing financial services where the institution suspects that an account is being used to further the illegal blockades and occupations. This order covers both personal and corporate accounts.
“temporarily”
15 days, perhaps?
“Two weeks to flatten the Mandate Freedom movement.”
Yes, the second year of two weeks to flatten the curve is the hardest.
“The government is bringing forward legislation to make these changes to FINTRAC’s mandate permanent.”
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/feds-crack-down-on-trucker-protest-financing-from-crowdfund-rules-to-freezing-bank-accounts-1.5781376
The people of Canada, everywhere, are all of the sudden having their blinders ripped off. Their peril is suddenly revealed. These government hacks will rue the day they did that.
I suspect many Canadian sheep (i.e., subjects to their elites) have already been conditioned to accept this outrage. Maybe even to endorse the outrage. The government and the people supporting it have lost their way. Tell me how this ends peaceably?
15 years can also be temporary.
It’s relative.
Thumbs up from IA to the truckin’ Canucks!
God bless you and keep you,
the new leaders of the actual free world, er, “free land”
(that WEF chick ain’t worthy of her own name).
Ummm….errrrr….”this is what democracy looks like?”
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
Democratic Kampuchea
German Democratic Republic
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Leftists LOVE to take over language
Exactly. That’s why our founders created a Constitutional Republic with limited acceptable democratic actions. This is also why Democrats and their minions always emphasize the word Democracy when referring to the U.S. and the only time they say something is un-constitutional is if it’s done by someone opposed to their actions.
Our Constitutional Republic ended April 8, 1913.
Breadline Bernie called it Democratic Fascism, or Democratic Socialism., can’t recall..
It seems all you have to do is to take anything, and add the word Democratic to it.
I just wonder how all those insurance companies are going to feel losing all those customers, because we are talking into the hundreds of thousands, if not more, of people who support this effort. Not to mention the risk on bank runs because, personally, I wouldn’t wait for some neanderthal in Trudope’s posse to come sniffing around my personal and private info.
He and his ilk can go suck eggs.
I would say that if enough people roll with it then these measures would be removed. The truckers hit their jugular vein. Governments shut down the wee folks way of life while allowing big corporations to proceed without any restrictions. The truckers shut down the big businesses, who really are the government and in double time, they responded to the seriousness of the loss of revenue. It is sickening to watch.
Someone did a rant on that recently in conjunction with the shutdown of the Ambassador Bridge that was epic. I don’t recall who but I just replay those words in my head every time Truck Fudeau or any of his lackeys whine about the Freedom Convoy shutting down businesses.
Yeah, the rich people’s business. The corporatists who come begging for our money every decade or so, and the politicians make the American people bail them out again, with a little somethon’ somethin’ on the side I am sure.
Just like the airlines. How many times have we bailed them out? Geez! And they have the nerve to categorize us as “SSSS”, not let us fly unless we get the arm drugs and wear masks, be strip searched and all of our things gone through with a fine tooth comb, and all the other ridiculous b.s. We are truly under dictatorship rule.
Especially considering the fact that our southern USA border is wide open for anyone and everyone. We allow them free roam on our checkbook, play shuttle bus driver, travel coordinator, tour guide, hospital, nurses and doctors, food managers, housing, and other gimmies.
BTW, wearing a truly good mask on a flight might not be such a bad idea. I often get sick after flying, but leave the kids alone. That is just truly disgusting.
I’ve never heard of any precedent for this in a democratic society, except during wartime..
My greater concern being that should these types of autocratic edicts (now also taking place in Newfoundland and to a lesser extent in Australia, New Zealand and the British Isles) be left unchecked by their citizens, there is no future for Western Civilization!
Oh, but we are at war.
Thank you Canada
From an Idahoan
Thank you Canada – from California
Thank you from WA state.
No better way to get someone to fight like they have nothing left to lose then to take away everything that they have…
I have been saying they are creating a situation where a revolutionary war is inevitable, the media keeps trying to sell it as a civil war pushing the people to attack each other but the sleeping masses have awoken to the terrorists in our state houses.
You mean counter-revolution, no?
Isn’t a digital currency a great idea? Carrying around all of that dirty money is such a hassle. Digital everything. Digital dr offices, digital telephones, computers, TVs, cars, all digital………al can be centrally controlled and your life disappeared and cut off from all the functions of society……all in the hands of unelected faceless government employees. Our elected officials are nothing but a facade to power. They no longer have any impact on laws or freedoms anymore. These nameless, faceless communists who are the gears of the well oiled communist machine are in complete control. We are all truckers now. Me thinks it’s time we all rethink the digitalization of everything. Until anonymity for each of us is possible, this system of digital convenience is where our freedom ends. This digitalization IS the mark of the beast. We are already numbered. God will deliver us from this evil. But we are gonna have to participate in dismantling it and replacing it with our own control. Everything MUST be decentralized.
100%
Reminds me of something written long ago: “So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple.” (Luke 14:33)
And something else: “I don’t care about all the money, I just care about all the stuff.” (Bernadette Peters, The Jerk)
How would this NOT create a run on banks today? That should help the economy.
That was my first thought. Bank Run. Plan on getting ahead of the heard today. Fractional Reserve Banking works great.. till it doesnt
Any Canadian that tries to get all their money out will automatically be label a supporter and their account immediately frozen, and them probably hauled of for “questioning.”
Now they put the onus on the poor little bank teller (or the poor little nazi bank teller). Imagine the repercussions from that; a bank teller or manager telling a trucker or anyone else that they will not give him access to his account, ie, “We hope that you and your family are imprisoned or starve to death,” (smirky face).
How can you not expect attacks on banks or their workers??
Canadians have no civil liberties and certainly never have had under their present Charter.
Trudy Castreau.
I’m waiting for a brave Canadian banker to freeze Justin’s bank account.
There is no honor among thieves and bankers. But, I repeat myself.
His definition of “Temporary “ is one day short of forever
It’s going to come down to the enforcers. These pansy elites are nothing in themselves.
Will the military choose the government or the people?
People need to get off of social media. Meta (a.k.a. Facebook) is mining your data and selling it to the highest bidder. That is how they make money. I got off years ago and it was like going through withdrawals from a powerful drug. Don’t scoff. Personally, I don’t even think Gab is safe.
Secondly, move your money to a local credit union where you know everyone. The big banks don’t deserve your business after what we saw them do to the J6 peaceful assembly, handing over credit card information, etc. Keep sufficient cash at home to get through several months of incidentals, and more if you can swing it.
Thirdly, stop texting everything about your life on your iPhone. Everything is captured because of the highly flawed Patriot Act. As we saw this week, “they” can even penetrate the White House networks including the Office of the President of the United States. There are too many Communists in our government.
Fourthly, use a VPN on your home computer and an encrypted email – only corresponding when necessary to someone who also has an encrypted email account.
Fifthly, get rid of Alexa and all those home spying mechanisms. They will be used against you. Even wireless baby monitors, if not properly configured, are a risk.
Sixthly, if you live in a Commie State, get out of it.
Seventh, if you own “registered” firearms, sell them, and acquire “unregistered” firearms. Yeah, that’s supposedly against the law, but there are legal ways to do it that won’t get you in a heap of trouble. Do your own research. If you can locate antique firearms that still work, do that. Heck, all the criminals roaming free in the country and coming through the southern border don’t register their firearms. Just sayin’.
If you can go completely “dark”, do it and only have conversations in person in a private location. These steps will help but are not 100%.
I stand with the Truckers and for Freedom, but I am also aware that our Government has and is consistently acting illegally, and that Justice is not equally applied.
My opinions only and #FJB #FJT.
I agree with every word, but if you “go dark”, how do you fight back? How do you change a system that is utterly in control of every communication method? You will be alone or in a very small and isolated circle with no means of coordination.
Reading the supporting official declarations Sundance linked, suggests three points:
(1) Unelected lower-level authoritarian employees at financial institutions are empowered to make decisions with serious economic consequences – and like the vaxxmakers, are immune from liability.
(2) The blockades are successful in the scope of economic impact they are having – more successful than one would have imagined.
(3) Apparently these blockades were created out of whole cloth, in response to nothing – as the government neither acknowledges nor even hints at the government’s cause-and-effect role in causing the blockades.
When reasonable men are denied reasonable negotiations, the alternatives are civil disobedience or civil war. Be careful what you ask for, Liberals.
As JFK said “‘Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.”
BTW……April 30, 2022 approaches……
isn’t that Canadian Disarmament Day……
turdeau gets a twofer……take away your guns and control or kill you with the vaxxx.
The primary target is truckers and farmers. A farmer doesn’t need equipment and inputs (sunthetic fertilizer, etc,) to feed his family. He needs those things to produce 4 billion calories to feed 5 thousand people. So dramatically less food and less trucks to move it where it is needed.
This isn’t going to work. Worse yet is the effects of the weather. South America’s growing season has been dismal, so good luck with imports, that would still need transportation.
Tunnel vision will get you every time.
“Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty; it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt (1759–1806)
“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” -Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“We can never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.” It was “illegal” to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler’s Germany. But I am sure that if I had lived in Germany during that time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers even though it was illegal. If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws …” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”, 16 April 1963
Trudy is prolly gonna end up in a pine box..
His colors are showing now…
Hank Kunneman prophesied this Canadian movement in 2017! Remarkable. Updated video reviewing this.
Smart move Queen Trudeau.
This will move 50% of the liberal voters in the US AWAY from anyone who is a friend of Queen Trudeau….
Our liberals are very good at taking other people’s money, but hate like hell when it is taken from them and will vote with their feet to stop it here USA
I would expect a run on banks today. If they don’t they are kidding themselves. Burying the pew pews wouldn’t be a bad Idea either.
Gov. employees are the only one’s who confiscate private money
This is exactly how your digital ID cryptocurrency bank account will work. They’ll cut off access to your personal funds using any whimsical rules the state contrives.
Blockchain (connecting all your data) on your digital ID will also list your licenses, insurance policies, investment accounts, income sources which they can cut off at a whim.
It is sinister beyond belief.
Yup! Very much so. They are itching to do it too. I’m surprised it took this long.
Trudeau invoked The Bouncy Castle Elimination Act.
Will he use it to freeze the bank accounts of Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford.
Peckford is a former premier who helped write the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and is suing Trudeau’s government.
I just posted a video of the statement he yesterday next to the Freedom Convoy organizer.
Are the banks and insurance companies at risk for supporting the cause if they don’t freeze accounts?
Dang good question!
But I would imagine all banks in Canada are in alignment with ‘the government’ already.
“Trudeau admires China’s dictatorship”
Didn’t age well.
China’s model has long been tested as the blueprint for the demise of the US too. Political class control, professional class(engineers, scientists, doctors) limited freedom, slave labor.
It is “state capitalism”. The CFR’s version for America was called “Innovative State Capitalism” by Bloomberg back in 2012. I call it Neo-Fascism.
https://www.cfr.org/blog/rise-innovative-state-capitalism
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The Canadian economy needs them to be doing legitimate work, not to be illegally making us all poorer.
As opposed to the Covid Lockdowns which legally made us all poorer.
They, the Canucks, had a chance to dump turdeau but they couldn’t be bothered.
Now they can enjoy their votes.
Not much sympathy coming from me.
Dominion’s in Canada – company whose software was originally written by the Chavez government, then funded by China and other assorted fascist conglomerates.
This is a global struggle for freedom and liberty. Uniting in that common cause gives us a far better chance of success.
God Bless the Canadian truckers that got this movement started world wide.
Btw, I’m sure some in countries outside the US say the same about us and Biden.
Even if you believe the election was legit, I believe only about 30% of Canadians voted for the Castro bastard child.
This will very quickly lead to a “general strike,” the weapon of Solidarity. Gas stations run dry, store shelves empty as citizens rush to buy food and fail, because truck drivers all across the nation refuse to deliver … anything, anywhere.
Trudeau and his supporting lackeys will find themselves both “fully revealed for what they always were,” but also “broken on a wheel of their own making.” This has nothing whatsoever to do with public health and it never did. If a tyrant succeeds at anything he will only double-down on everything else that next occurs to him, because he is drunk on his own power and impoten… I mean, “importance.” 🤡
Unfortunately for him, history books repeatedly teach us that people who do these things sometimes do not survive the experience. But as for me, I hope that his power is ignominiously crushed and that he then has to live with that forever. I want to watch him trying to find TV stations and radio stations where he can endlessly insist that he was right while nobody tunes in.
I agree with everything you wrote although I hope your definition of forever is painfully short.
The wheels on the trucks don’t go round and round, round and round, round and round.
Either Trudeau goes or Canada goes.
I think they are at that point.
And maybe they are so far gone that both will happen.
Trudeau steps down but what’s left of Canada isn’t worth saving.
Either Biden goes or America goes.
The circle has completed. Now that Russian troops are returning to their bases after field exercises near the Ukraine border president Putin can honestly accuse Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau of being an aggressive dictator and a tyrant.
President Trump asks Canada to allow peaceful protests
and tells the Biden Administration to quit trying to start a war between Moscow & Kiev.
Castrate the little bastard.
Castrote.
So he can sing in a higher pitch?
You cannot castrate a eunuch twice.
Dept. of Redundancy Department Alert: you can’t castrate a eunuch once, let alone twice.
How to turn a peaceful protest into a violent one in three easy steps.
I like yours better.
Trudeau sounds terrified.
This may be tangental but is relevant.
Arbutis & Acuitis, 2 Canadian pharmacutical companies derived from the University of British Columbia research, developed the lipid nanoparticle which makes mRNA work.
These are commercial ventures benefiting Canada so Canada has a monopoly on the world’s adoption of mRNA gene therapy.
In the security filing it is stated that the University of British Columbia is the licensure of nanoparticle technology.
Moderna tried to get the Canadian patents overturned but could not and had to pay the licensure. This is court record.
Canada receives money for every injection of the mRNA gene therapy.
Canada controls the mRNA “vaccine” platform and is enriched by Moderna and Pfizer’s partnership with BioNTech.
Canada’s monopoly on at the world’s adoption of mRNA gene therapy shots is an illegal monopoly.
This is why Justin will not address the concerns and grievances of the truckers – will not consider the citizens’ right to redress.
It always ends up with “follow the money”.
Agent Brandoe on Twitter:
“Canada WINS every time there’s a shot. Justin Trudeau ordered 10 times more vaccines than there are Canadians.”
Dr. Martin explains how the Canadian Government gets illegal kickbacks (“wins”) from Canadian Big Pharma on every Forced Experiment Injection sold to the Government.
It’s the Self-Licking Blood-Clot Ice Cream Cone. Maple-flavored.
How do I like this? I hate it. 😉
They also housed Dominion, and we should all know who they are by now. It is the only way the left can win and they made us pay for it, and pay for it and pay for it.
And now they want us to payoff the USPS to the tune of $50 BILLION over 10 years. WHY?
I told my father that Trudeau sounded like an errand buy, someone his benefactors didn’t count on to make real decisions.
Sooooo any word from the Canada’s “conservative leadership” yet? Asking for a friend.
Sorry, they are hiding with Trudeau at his secret location. Although, I heard that may be cut short- lack of supplies.
For those slow-minded folk- that was a joke. The treehouse has had some liberal trolls lately….
There is none. The silence is deafening.
Pierre Poilievre did speak out against Trudeau’s Emergency Act yesterday:
Conservative MP Pierre Poilievre — the only person so far running to lead his party — said the way to end the protest and illegal blockades is to remove the mandates.
“Real simple. Listen to the science, do what other provinces and countries are doing, that is to end the mandates and restrictions so protesters can get back to their lives and their jobs,” he said heading into question period Monday.
“The only emergency is the one that Justin Trudeau has deliberately created to divide the country and gain politically.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-premiers-cabinet-1.6350734
Trudeau’s poorly thought out ’emergency powers’ antics will permanently alter domestic banking relationships. Smart banking CEOs will tacitly avoid Trudeau’s edicts.
Shutting down a carrier because one of their vans appeared at a protest will be a huge fail.
The targeted trucking industry has mytiad ways to deliver massive pain to Canadians. The convoy was a warning shot.
Trudeau’s proving quite the mini-tyrant. His time has expired.
Well, to be fair, the idiots (50% in Canada, about 40% in the US) who support Trudeau think food comes from the grocery stores. They probably don’t realize those trucks in the back are bringing them supplies.
What they don’t grow it in the back of the store Someone better tell COA
Yes, that is probably what the schools are teaching our children – all the food comes from the grocery stores – not from the farmers and certainly not from the truckers.
This includes their video statement.
‘We Will Hold the Line’: Freedom Convoy Organizers Say They’re Not Deterred by Emergencies Act
By Limin Zhou
14 Feb 2022
https://www.theepochtimes.com/we-will-hold-the-line-freedom-convoy-organizers-say-theyre-not-deterred-by-emergencies-act_4277878.html
Gutsy! Please pray for them.
This is exactly what Biden tried to do here but backed off after he was called on it. This hasn’t stopped his allies in big Tech from using censorship to silence opposition on social media. We are inches away from being Australia and Canada.
Take note of which banks actually follow through.
When this is all over, do not forget.
Smaller, home-town banks, in far-away provinces
might make better sense.
The People of Coutts sing “Oh Canada” while greeting the RCMP…
28 minutes on twitter, 95,000 views.
Turdeau lost big time. What is the over/under for his departure? 1 week? 2 weeks?
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/covid_19/59_of_u_s_voters_support_canadian_truckers_in_freedom_convoy_protest
Got to play it again…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/DFUs4RGYJoOA/
Yeah, unfortunately they’re leaving the blockade today after a recent false flag event in Alberta.
We have seizure problems in US too. Usually it’s cash, gold and silver.
Taking directly from bank account without a Court Order…….
That’s bringing it up a notch.
As mandates go away around the globe, seizing assets of those who want same in their own country for the first time ever seems more about power/control than it is about the health/well-being of citizens.
Trudeau has crossed a line here and it’s probably gonna get uglier now.
…says someone named “Freeland”, without any noticeable irony.