Trudeau govt starts freezing bank accounts of 'Freedom Convoy' truckers
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said financial institutions have frozen the accounts of protestors in Ottawa.
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New Delhi, Feb 18: After invoking the Emergencies Act to curb the ongoing truckers’ protests, the Justin Trudeau-led Canadian government has not started freezing the accounts of people allegedly linked to the protests in Ottawa.
Speaking to the media on Thursday, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said financial institutions have frozen the accounts of protestors in Ottawa. Freeland, who is also the country’s Finance Minister, vowed to take more accounts offline in the coming weak in an attempt to cut off the funds to the protestors who have stormed into the nation’s capital against the Covid regulations.
Freeland, who is also the finance minister, said the RCMP and other law enforcement agencies have been gathering intelligence on convoy protesters and their supporters and sharing that information with financial institutions to restrict access to cash and cryptocurrency.The law also allows banks to target account closure donors to the GoFundMe and the GiveSendGo fundraising campaigns that fuelled this protest.
Canada has begun to freeze the bank accounts of people who donated to the truckers. Imagine if Trump had done this to BLM protest donors. Yet Canada does it to people donating to truckers & most in media pretend it isn’t happening. pic.twitter.com/EUwG9vJtUW
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) February 17, 2022
Issuing a strict warning to the peaceful protesters, Deputy PM Freeland said those “who have their big rigs on Ottawa’s streets will see their insurance cancelled and their corporate accounts suspended” — a move that will make it difficult for these drivers ever to work again.
“The consequences are real, and they will bite,” she said.
The Canadian government has used the Emergencies Act to order the country’s banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people who are “directly or indirectly” associated with the anti-vaccine mandate Truckers’ protests. On February 14, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had invoked the Emergencies Act.