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Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

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> Canada is now regulating crowdfunding platforms and crypto currency under the Terrorist Financing Act.

https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/14933475618764718...

> As of today, financial institutions with be “authorized or directed” to “prohibit the use of property” or freeze accounts - personal or corporate- if the institution suspects that the account holder is financing illegal blockades.

https://twitter.com/TheMarieOakes/status/1493344048932966405

I am absolutely ashamed of what my Government is doing right now. Our PM was singing a different tune when the farmers in my home country were protesting in India. Or the Hong Kong protests. Or the pipeline protests in Canada.

Re: Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

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post #2

> Canada is now regulating crowdfunding platforms and crypto currency under the Terrorist Financing Act. https://twitter.com/TrueNorthCentre/status/14933475618764718... > As of today, financial institutions with be “authorized or directed” to “prohibit the use of property” or freeze accounts - personal or corporate- if the institution suspects that the account holder is financing illegal blockades. https://twitter.co…

Under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act. Which specific regulatory laws would you expect them to be handled under?

Re: Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

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The people who thinks this will degenerate to violence will be disappointed. The truckers are normal people with mouths to feed and a retirement plan to save, not a militia made of radicals, as we saw at the bridge.

What will happen however is that the problem just going to be moved elsewhere. Trucks might begin to slow down, citizens might continue to assemble, in Ottawa or elsewhere. How protesters are going to find other ways to protest will be very interesting to watch and how the government will respond will be terrifying.

Re: Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

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> The Emergencies Act is the modern-day replacement to the War Measures Act. It allows the federal government to force companies to provide services, it can require public protests to end, and limit mobility rights by preventing people from moving to designating areas.

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> The act also allows for the military to be used as police, but several sources said that is not under active consideration.

Not a good look for Trudeau. This definitely looks like an authoritarian response to a loss of mandate. The protestors will dig in more, the response will become harsher, and the government will be in deeper trouble.

Re: Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act

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He must think these mandates are like violence. When it doesn't work, you have to double down and do more. You can't possibly take a step back and have a dialog.

He, triple vaxxed, tested positive for COVID but his mandates allow him to air travel. But I am not allowed even though I can prove via a PCR test that I am uninfected.

Tests aren't recognized in Canada. Nor is natural immunity recognized. It's asinine.

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