In a series of tweets following the Trudeau regime’s declaration invoking the so-called “Emergencies Act”, which is tantamount to Martial Law without a state of war, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association has soundly and bitingly condemned the Canadian government for massively overstepping its authority under their Constitution. This places the supposedly ‘liberal’ government in a highly awkward position with Executive Director Noa Mendelsohn Aviv warning Trudeau’s Minsters that normalization of emergency legislation “threatens our democracy and our civil liberties.”
The CCLA statement via Twitter said,
“The federal government has not met the threshold necessary to invoke the Emergencies Act. This law creates a high and clear standard for good reason: the Act allows government to bypass ordinary democratic processes. This standard has not been met,” the CCLA wrote.
“The Emergencies Act can only be invoked when a situation ‘seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada’ [and] when the situation ‘cannot be effectively dealt with under any other law of Canada,’” they continued. “Governments regularly deal with difficult situations, and do so using powers granted to them by democratically elected representatives. Emergency legislation should not be normalized. It threatens our democracy and our civil liberties,”
The Canadian Government’s Financial Chokehold
Trudeau’s ministers shocked the world when in tandem announcements he invoke the Emergencies Act, for the first time since his Father signed it into law in 1988 (After having to use the War Measures Act when members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) kidnapped the provincial Deputy Premier Pierre Laporte and British diplomat James Cross in an uprising known as the October Crisis,) and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announcing that the Government will now require banks to freeze “crowdfunding institutions, cryptocurrency transactions, corporate, and personal bank accounts” without a court order and with all liability for financial institutions doing so on their behalf: waived.
“We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use. These changes cover all forms of transactions, including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies. The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms and some of the payment service providers they use are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime and Terrorist financing Act.”
The Trudeau administration is going to freeze crowdfunding institutions, cryptocurrency transactions, corporate, and personal bank accounts that support the Canadian truckers.
"We are broadening the scope of Canada's anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules…" pic.twitter.com/oUwsXyKUZL
— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) February 14, 2022
The shocker was still to come though as Freeland (an ironic name if there ever was one) took direct aim at the Freedom Convoy protesters and supporters attacking their livelihood,
“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.”
“We are today serving notice: If your truck is being used in these illegal blockades your corporate accounts WILL BE FROZEN.”
As Tucker Carlson aptly noted, “Justin Trudeau suspended Democracy and declared Canada a dictatorship.”
Trudeau told the gathered press:
“The Federal Government has invoked the emergencies act to supplement Provincial and Territorial capacity to address the blockades and occupations. The Emergencies Act will be used to strengthen and support law enforcement agencies at all levels across the country.”
