Trudeau Invokes Emergency Powers to Freeze Freedom Convoy Protesters’ Bank Accounts
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act to crack down on Freedom Convoy protests against vaccine mandates and Government overreach over COVID-19. It is the first time the extreme legislation has been triggered since it was enacted in 1988, and it empowers banks to freeze the personal accounts of protestors without the permission of a court. The Government is also extending “terrorist financing” rules to cover the protestors. BBC News has more.
Mr Trudeau said the scope of the measures would be “time-limited”, “reasonable and proportionate”. The military will not be called to assist.
Without a court order, banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests.
Mr Trudeau faces widespread criticism for his handling of the protests.
“This is about keeping Canadians safe, protecting people’s jobs,” he said.
He said the police would be given “more tools” to imprison or fine protesters and protect critical infrastructure.
The extraordinary move by Mr Trudeau comes as demonstrations across Canada enter their third week. It is his most aggressive move since the protests began.
On Sunday, law enforcement cleared anti-mandate protesters at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor – a critical pathway for Canada-US trade – after a week-long stalemate.
Hundreds of protesters remain in Canada’s capital city.
Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford called for a state of emergency in the province in response to the protests.
Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said banks will be able freeze personal accounts of anyone linked with the protests without any need for a court order.
Vehicle insurance of anyone involved with the demonstrations can also be suspended, she added.
She said they were broadening Canada’s “Terrorist Financing” rules to cover cryptocurrencies and crowdfunding platforms, as part of the effort to clamp down on the protests.
“It’s all about following the money,” she said.
The Emergencies Act, passed in 1988, demands a high legal bar to be invoked. It may only be used in an “urgent and critical situation” that “seriously endangers the lives, health or safety of Canadians”. Lawful protests do not qualify.
Speaking on Monday, Canada’s Justice Minister David Lametti said the Government believes these conditions have been met, saying the current crisis is national in scope and exceeds the power of existing laws and Canada’s provinces to respond.
Mr Lametti and Mr Trudeau stressed that the enormous power of the legislation would be applied temporarily, and in a highly specific manner. But the decision has already been met with criticism.
The BBC draws attention to the fact that last year, Trudeau angered the Indian Prime Minister by supporting farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi. “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest,” he said at the time.
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Seems like a perfectly reasonable course of action for any self respecting tyrant.
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Whoever isn’t terrified of government now will probably never be.
“Oh, I’m sure the tyranny will only come for people that I disagree with.”
There are people who will be blaming covid from their prison cells or as they expire from starvation or VAIDS
WEF is a club to breed globalist tyrants
Schwab was already seven years old when the Führer shot himself.
I wonder if the family wore black armbands?
Premiers of Manitoba, Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan oppose the imposition of these powers. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/trudeau-unleash-never-used-emergency-powers-act-counter-protests-us-canada-bridge-reopens
You can’t rule the majority who oppose you without force or bloodshed. Is Mr Soyboy willing to go down that road?
Trudeau est pire que Hitler mais plus con.
Can he freeze bank accounts outside the former democracy of Canada?
I’d imagine that would be possible in certain situations. The victim’s bank supports it or the victim’s government supports it.
Unbelievable. Talk about a government gone rogue. This is simply making up the laws to suit. By any standards of reasonableness what Trudeau and his gang are doing is simply illegal and downright criminal.
I feel sick reading this, absolutely sick.
I hope the Truckers can hold on because if they are beaten we will have one hell of a war to face.
Ensuring that his name goes down in infamy. Appalling man, determined to be wrong to the end.
The Canadian Truckers are beyond brave – I share your hopes and your concerns.
That’s an appalling misnomer.
Replace it with “creature” – I won’t object!
You might say he’s a man – but a human being?
This is nothing to do with a virus, but a planned programme for totalitarian control that is being relentlessly imposed on all populations. There is a financial collapse occurring anyway, some of these moves are to act as cover as the financial implosion occurs. This will be blamed on the pandemic and the public who are resisting either “vaxxination” or totalitarian dictates.
Absolutely right kate.
Actually, this is really a test of western populations.
Do they want strongmen as leaders or do they want democracy and freedom?
The WEF regional manager for Canada is testing the WEF hypothesis that we now live in a post democratic world, and that what people really want is a China style government which appears strong and competent.
(Appears)
You got that a little bit wrong. We want men as leaders that are strong enough to oppose tyranny. The WEF placed leaders are followers and also; psychopathic, narcissistic, egotists. They are not true leaders, they follow orders
Chances are these acts are aimed at accelerating the financial collapse – now trying to provoke bank runs.
Yes indeed!
This is the Social Credit system that the CCP uses.
How did this get passed by the parliament in Canada?
There must be a check on what can be enacted?
A government cannot do this to a terrorist or a criminal without going through the courts.
Johnson rules with emergency powers and turned Ofcom into a Media Censor overnight – he can do what he likes and a supine and cowardly Parliament, a jobsworth, forelock touching Speaker and a Blairite packed Supreme Court will do nothing to stop him .
We have no effective Constitution and not even an active “Head of State”.
Do people realise that the King of Italy was nominally ‘in charge’ of the country throughout Mussolini’s rule and eventually just dismissed him…’just like that’ in 1943?
Thank you for the taking time to respond. However, I was writing about Canada, not the UK or Italy.
To keep you informed of what is happening outside of the sacred Isle called Great Britain here is what is going on in Canada. As often said here “It is well worth the read”
Off-Guardian
As terrified as it makes me I suspect the only end of this will be slavery or civil war. Yet, there is always hope.
He’s still not realised then that when in a hole, it’s best not to carry on digging…
I wish he was in a bloody hole. One can only hope.
He’s a little piece of debauched tripe that would get kicks from going into a park on a moonless night and engaging in acts of sodomy and fellatio with absolute strangers. He’d engage with naked men of every sort that he could not even see, and feel no fear that it may in future give rise to diseases.
Freaks like him don’t actually have the cerebral capacity to abstractly feel fear in the normal sense.
Progressives will tell you that men like him get beat up a lot whilst at school because of the feminine way they look and act. People with experience of them will tell you they get beat up a lot because the part of the brain that compels normal people to keep their noses out of business that doesn’t concern them, just doesn’t work correctly in scuzzbags like him.
But enough about his better qualities.
Love the first para! Made me chuckle.
He is digging the hole for his own people !
Many will suffer as a result of this act of evil.
I hope Trudeau bears the full cost of it, personally.
In case anyone’s not seen this, some context. This is why the criminal Trudeau will not back down.
Thanks for the link.
In regards to the none action of so many of the general population, one of the most chilling comments – for me – under that video is:
“my dad who lived through the Russian take over of Hungary , said to me , nobody did nothing until there fridge was empty “
The BBC draws attention to the fact that last year, Trudeau angered the Indian Prime Minister for supporting farmers in India who blocked major highways to New Delhi. “Canada will always be there to defend the right of peaceful protest,” he said at the time.
Narcissists are hypocrites through and through, they pretend to have morals, standards, feelings, and a conscience, but they possess absolutely none of these I’m afraid … so I’m surprised that anyone could be surprised by this hypocrisy – by their very nature all narcissists are complete hypocrites – just look at Tony Blair.
Bliar should have faced justice for crimes against humanity … lets hope the Canadians have better luck than we did bringing their treasonous Prime Minister to trial.
BBC = Snake Oil Manufacturers.
I think Blair was bad, but I don’t think he’s in that category.
So will the “international community” condemn this disgraceful and unprecedented tyrannical assault on human rights?
I think we know the answer.
The “International Community” does not exist – “international” and “community” are diametrical opposites – contradictions in terms .
Only greedy, psychotic and sociopathic Billionaires, Banks, Corporates all their stooges and would be tyrants run this world.
They appear to have declared war on the global population.
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I thought Tienamen square was in China?
I get muddled these days.
No , Canada is now part of China – that’s the confusion!
Well there you go, a social credit score – just missing the CBDC.
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If Trudeau sees that picture, he’ll have to jack-off to it.
This one’s his favourite at the moment I believe:
Thought the moustache was more appropriate!
If I laugh at this, does that make me a bad person?
Havana Cigar?
Konrad Asspanzer…
I think Trudeau’s initial hope will be to use the Emergencies Act to freeze funds to the truckers. The Canadian government has already made attempts to do this. We all know about GoFundMe, but when another US fundraising platform started raising money for the protesters, the Canadian government threatened them. But this second platform told them that Canada had no jurisdiction over them and to eff-off. The Emergencies Act will give Trudeau power to freeze all funding going into Canada, and to freeze bank accounts and credit cards payments by the protesters and anyone supporting them. I suspect the Canadian government is hoping this will be enough to bring the protests to an end without going full-on dystopian and getting the Canadian military involved. They are probably very fearful of getting the military involved because, no doubt, many in the military will disobey orders to use force on their own citizens. There’s a very valuable lesson in this for people all across the world. The lesson is that Trudeau’s string-pullers are using their financial clout, via the Emergencies Act, to close down the protests. If Trudeau’s string-pullers can completely stop the money, the protests will probably fall… Read more »
You are so right. Digital currency is “game over” for freedom – and that’s what they want more than anything.
But Central Bank Digital Currency is what we’ve had for years. Fiat. It’s just a phrase describing fiat. It’s not backed by anything, just numbers on a screen.
By the way, Bitcoin (meaning BSV, not BTC) has absolutely nothing to do with what is being described as CBDC.
It is the loss of cash that is central to the CBDC, as all transactions will be visible to the dictators and controlled by them. Fiat currency with cash is not controllable. This comment made on this website a few days ago sums it up. The goal is to have a global ID which is associated with all transactions that you engage in, to create the ability for cooperating global governments to efficiently grant or deny transaction permissions to/from you based on this ID (ability to travel is just one example and the first use case). The goal is also to establish a global infrastructure for checking and enforcing such permissions. The goal is to make sure there is nowhere to hide and what is allowed/disallowed can be changed with a flip of a switch – because that constitutes ultimate power. Money is an important piece of the puzzle because money has been so far the enabler of (uncontrolled) transactions. That will no longer be the case when your money can digitally disappear from your possession when the government decides so (a bit like they can already do by freezing bank accounts, just much more efficient and not limited by… Read more »
Sounds like the perfect recipe foe Global Economic Meltdown . I suppose you could call it the new “China Syndrome”
CBDC only makes it more efficient.
The banks already all work for the government and will do whatever governments tell them to do.
We lost our financial freedom a long time ago, the problem is that it was done quietly and no one noticed.
That’s it. The be all and end all.
Lose cash – lose freedom. Slave society.
I don’t see people accepting slave society without putting up a fight, literally. Yes, lots will just go along with it, but many (an increasing number, the longer this shitshow goes on) won’t. When you’ve got large numbers of people who feel they’ve got nothing left to lose, or fear their children being enslaved for ever by these criminal governments, it is likely to get very ugly. What TPTB can’t predict is how it will pan out, because this is completely new territory. Will western military turn on their own people? I agree with Fireweasel, I think many won’t. If people like Trudeau keep going down the road they’re on, I think they will be overthrown. He’s gone way past boiling frogs, and the desperate measures he’s trying to impose to control the plebs is blatantly obvious for all to to see.
Have you seen the people we are relying on to “put up a fight” still wearing their masks in the bath?
There is little hope for obtaining “power in numbers” – we are no longer in medieval ages where the army with the most soldiers won the war.
Today due to technological and military progress it is easy to keep even a very large population in check using relatively modest resources.
What is important to the dictators is that they maintain a small core group of well-equipped and very loyal followers in key positions. The greatest threat in fact is a competing dictator longing for their position. But loyalty can of course be easily bought by bribes. Whereas in old ages such bribes would require the king to amass a physical stash of gold to pay his mercenaries, today all that is required is the ability to emit virtual money and to grant extra permissions to the minions – while also revoking permissions from the dissenters. Of course, all that backed with lots of guns – although remote controlled bombs are even better.
So, it’s all over then?
The only thing which could change matters if the dictators realized they’ve crossed lines and it becomes personally dangerous for them to pursue such policies.
In the past, random assassinations of tyrants were a good deterrent and a great promoter of “democracy”… which is really just a revolving doors style of tyranny, in which a small group of tyrants takes their turns at government so as to appease the dumb public. There’s still some hoping that the likes of Trudeau will realize what they are getting themselves into, but on the other hand long-term established dictatorships do exist and are doing pretty well, so who knows.
I think the problem is that the real psychos up there even lack fear of personal demise (it’s a brain issue, well-known in sociopaths). They should never have been allowed to occupy a public office in the first place.
I think you underestimate the power of the plebs. Canada is the testing ground. Let’s see how it plays out there before proclaiming all hope is lost.
One would hope that alternative forms of money and/or barter would emerge. But the thing about state issued money is that the state can force its use upon people – through the institution of tax collection. Ultimately, if you don’t possess legal currency, you can’t pay your taxes. And if you don’t pay taxes, you go to prison. And who maintains the power of taxation? The group in any given country which is best armed and most ready to commit violence against its citizens. This of course also applies on a global level – the best armed and most violent countries “tax” those inferior ones in one way or another (if the inferior countries refuse to pay their “tax”, they are crippled with sanctions and/or destroyed through war).
People 2ill just barter and trade other things, and move to non controlled currencies.
I am hearing that all social media posts out of Canada are blocked. I don’t know if anyone is able to confirm.
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BREAKING: Peaceful protesters at Coutts blockade say they plan to roll out tomorrow.
https://twitter.com/SydFizzard/status/1493375787361189889
I am absolutely gutted.
Possibly the correct approach.
Avoid the kind of violent confrontation that could be used to demonise them, and post hoc justify the state of emergency, and leave Trudeau having to explain why he went nuclear.
I agree, difficult tho it will be for them, it is vital to deny Trudeau his justification for dictatorship.
Yes, they should not allow themselves to be provoked and keep playing cat with mouse instead. They are currently a guerilla force and they can only lose by engaging in open conflict.
Trudeau and the Davos Deviants will wreck vengeance now. I suspect vicious reprisals and the leaders will be picked off one by one.
Canada and the world will be made to suffer. Don’t bet against a change of direction from Bozo.
The situation world wide has got nasty written all over it.
We might be next.
I can see the plan is to progressively tighten the screw country by country, in a way that can be “justified” whilst keeping the bulk of the populations in all countries pacified and ignorant of what is going on.
Yes Kate,
Like the wall to wall media censorship of The Durham inquiry into Clinton to remove President Trump, financed by Hilliry Clinton.
Is that what you mean?
You should look at Theconservativetreehouse.for great coverage of the Canadian events.
I was reluctant to come here when I saw this article came from the lying bbc.
Our host should really get some truthful news sources instead of that lying beeb and it’s house journal the gruinard.
See it all on ‘Gateway Pundit’.
Yes – virtually no foreign news of any value on UK media other than GB News – see ‘Russia Today’ for better coverage. ( before they ban it as they have done in Germany)
Suddenly everyone stops posting on the Daily Sceptic in the hope that the authorities won’t be cracking down on the ‘ringleaders’!
Bit late now… they know who you are…! What if they freeze your bank account?!
See Jan 6th Capitol Riots Gulag for the future – ( all on Gateway Pundit)
Hearing from where?
Gosh! It’s the Full On ‘Third World Banana Republic Coup” then.
Is Schwab directing it from the Davos Bunker ( what is it about Mountain Retreats that turns-on these megalomaniac Nazis – Berchtesgaden didn’t save the Führer though)
What else can they do to “get” these people and stop this protest? I don’t know, I just know that whatever it is, they will do it.
Trudeau is not taking these measures in a vacuum. He is consulting with his fellow world leaders and all the people behind the curtain. They all seem to know that this protest MUST be defeated and cannot spread.
Trudeau would not wipe his own butt without first getting permission from a lieutenant of Klaus Schwab’s.
What was Johnson’s “advice” I wonder?
God bless these people for showing the world what a peaceful protest actually looks like, and God bless the officers for doing their job the right way, and not just blindly following orders. This is the best of humanity, while the tyrannical governments of the world show us the worst.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-capitalism-with-chinese
Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters’ bank accounts
Yet more validation of the blockchain/Ethereum/Bitcoin currency concept. You think that your financial assets are secure? Think again. You think that the social credit system threats are empty? Think again. Your bank account is no longer safe.
Apparently this is yet another benefit of the new world order and the great reset, brought to you by the totalitarian World Economic Forum that has trained and advised Mr. Trudeau. As if the global financial situation was not already tenuous enough. I know of multiple analysts that were already predicting financial impending collapse. Trudeau is acting like a financial arsonist. But maybe that is a feature, not a bug. So that we can build back better.
I believe the financial threats and the destruction of democratic protections have been wargamed well in advance.
It is naive to assume that the NWO has not wargamed their moves in advance and thought of a way to eliminate opposition from the populace.
By retreating peacefully, the truckers may be able to expose this totalitarian system for what it is, because it is planned to roll it relentlessly forward, with all kinds of violence if necessary. Provoking violence is part of this programme.
Your right to protest is eliminated, if any protest can be denoted a threat to the state.
Did you contribute to the “give-send-go” or “go fund me” initiatives to help fund the Canadian truckers? Then you are at risk of being declared an anti-mandate protester and in theory can have your bank account frozen.
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/the-great-reset-capitalism-with-chinese
Good. Let them come and get me, from rural Somerset, England 🙂
You’re not exactly ‘free’ in England, are you? Your connection to your bank account can be turned off if ‘they’ wish. Xi Jinping’s comrades know what you did last Summer 😉
What will you do when your government declares possession of your digital currency and transacting using it illegal? Will you risk getting ratted out or trading with a government/police informant and going to prison?
You will still need means to convert the digital currency to legal currency to pay tax. This conversion (presumably using some black market exchange) is the moment in which you will be most reliably caught and prosecuted.
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Givesendgo has been taken down
They’ve been hacked, completely owned, and all their donor details leaked. Poor show by them.
CIA fingerprints all over it then
Why the hell did we loose millions of lives in 2 world wars? Apparently it certainly was not to protect our freedoms as ALL Governments across the free world have systematically taken our freedoms from us proof that we live in a dictatorship. We are fooled into believing that our Politicians work for US making US the BOSSES, Odd how they order us to do as they say whilst they do the complete opposite, they set their own wages many times above the national minimum wage and then act as if poor by claiming expenses on giant fish ponds and solid gold loo roll holders whilst we the BOSSES choose between heating and eating. These same Politicians “Employees” take us into a 2 decade “war on terror” based on nothing but lies at the cost of 1000’s of UK lives and maybe millions of civilian lives YET the top Politician solely responsible for these blatant LIES that were made in the full knowledge of being lies when found guilty of court walks away with a knighthood 2 decades later whilst if it was us we would have been left to rot in prison until well and truly dead. almost 100… Read more »
It’s still scary to knock on Susan Michie’s door. Annie keeps banging on about the evil Drakeford yet he’s only a short train ride away for her if she feels like popping round for a fireside chat.
I wonder what is going to happen in the UK and Europe this year. My best guess is that people will continue to want to keep their Vaxx Passes valid, and that involves taking the 3rd, and probably 4th, ‘vaccines’. Horrible situation, but here we are.
4th Vaccine? 4th, 5th and even 10th shot yes but vaccine no. sadly Pfizer and Moderna are not Vaccines, they are Mrna treatments that alter the genetic coding of our immune system that had human trials cut short with fast track. I wonder what the true long term effects are of this? Maybe we are already seeing the 1st in “long covid” After all, Covid, sars and Mers are ALL coronavirus and as such belong to the group of diseases we call Flu. why is it that only Covid19 has these potentially life long symptoms?. Yes many will say we know all about DNA and how to use it to heal. If that were true, why do people wear dentures if they know how to program our stem cells to grow new teeth. the same with heart and kidney problems not just teeth. It should worry people that only Mrna is available as a booster.
There is good evidence (and many rumours) that the SARS coronaviruses all came from labs, not the wild.
Normal human coronaviruses are not Sars coronaviruses, which have been artificially manipulated to infect humans from their original hosts bats.
MERS is probably the same, gain of function virus from camels.
Maybe there is a purpose for NATO after all. Based on what western forces did in Libya in 2011, perhaps we should consider bombing Ottawa and . . . well, look at what happened to Gadaffi.
https://www.rebelnews.com/freedom_convoy_organizers_hold_press_conference_addressing_emergencies_act_declaration
Alexa Lavoie is attending a press conference held by the organizers of the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa, where they will be delivering a response to the anticipated announcement from Prime Minister Justin to invoke the Emergencies Act.
https://rumble.com/vuybej-ezra-reacts-to-trudeaus-suspension-of-civil-liberties.html
Ezra Reacts to Trudeau’s Suspension of Civil Liberties
The government has to bring the emergency declaration to the House of Commons for a vote within seven days. The Senate is also required to hold a vote on it. If invoking the act is not approved, the declaration is rescinded.
The act requires the creation of a Parliamentary oversight committee, and mandates a public inquiry report to the House of Commons on the emergency declaration within a year of its termination.
The act also requires the prime minister to consult with all provincial and territorial premiers before issuing a declaration. Mr. Trudeau met virtually with premiers on Monday morning after briefing his caucus. While Ontario Premier Doug Ford supported the decision, premiers from Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and Quebec said they didn’t want it imposed countrywide.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-prime-minister-trudeau-to-discuss-ending-trucker-blockades-with-first/
Thank you, Kate.
We can only hope that people are aware that this is an historic moment. They will be judged forever by what they do in the next week.
“Consultation” sounds a lot like dictation.
So, I tweeted several leading Tory politicians inviting them to condemn this and they all remain silent – this most likely is our future.
Then let them be judged, too.
Latest trucker press conference. It seems the Emergency Act has not been passed yet and Turdeau faces a lot of opposition. Let’s hope it’s enough! These guys seem cool as cucumbers and completely unfazed, which is confidence-inspiring; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz97T_lk0Ls
This is clearly a case of government going beyond its reasonable powers. The banks should refuse to comply. Second French revolution anyone?
First world revolution, more like…
World-shaking events… you won’t ever see on the BBC.
The BBC is making itself irrelevant to real world factual events – might as well be the Völkischer Beobachter.
I’d rather read the latter
Negotiation and persuasion, Trudeau? No. Boot on the throat of your fellow citizens. Cowardly bastard.
How could there be ‘negotiation’ if he refuses even to talk to them. In fact NO-ONE in the government will speak to them.
All just part of the ‘dehumanising’ process – the Nazis didn’t speak to Jewish Elders to ‘discuss’ implementation of their ‘Race Law’ polices.
The Canadian situation has become very, very important, for all humanity. The Canadian truckers have become the vanguard for freedom and I support them 100%.