By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 29, 2023
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In the America of our day, legions of citizens are still being held without trial as political prisoners—made possible by a government-weaponized FBI. In today’s Canada, the lives of legions of average Canadian citizens are being ruined by a Prime Minister Justin Trudeau-weaponized Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). All of it only made possible under the guise of a so-called necessity born of the Emergency Economic Measures Order—in news emerging months after the televised investigation into whether Trudeau should have implemented the Emergency Measures Act.
One year after the Freedom Convoy gained world recognition and admiration for standing up to a tyrannical prime minister who locked his own people up during the COVID-19 panic, we’re learning that the bank accounts of over 200 trucking companies that employed individuals supportive of the Freedom Convoy were frozen based on an international RCMP blacklist—sent out worldwide.
“A federal blacklist of over 200 trucking companies that employed individuals supportive of the Freedom Convoy was emailed from a federal department to Canadian officers of a number of foreign banks, one of which was headquartered in Beijing, records show. (Epoch Times, March 23, 20230)
“In a response to a question by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen, the Public Safety Department wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office distributed a blacklist to the RCMP naming 201 trucking companies, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.
“The RCMP placed no restrictions on the blacklist’s distribution, and records show it was distributed to the Canadian officers of some banks headquartered in foreign countries, such as the Bank of China, State Bank of India, and Citibank of New York.
The RCMP wrote in the Inquiry that the blacklisted companies’ information was only shared with “entities listed in pursuant to the Emergency Economic Measures Order,” and that “no information was shared with any other non-governmental entities.”
But only banks and not other non-governmental entities freeze bank accounts!
“Among the 201 blacklisted companies, 198 were Canadian, with the other three being registered out of the United States. (Epoch Times)
Other banks on the distribution list included the France-headquartered BNP Paribas, Habib Bank of Pakistan, Hana Financial Group located in South Korea, ICICI Bank Limited of India, Mizuho Financial Group of Japan, and Wells Fargo & Company headquartered in San Francisco, according to Blacklock’s.
In other words, freezing the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy truckers and their supporters was not just a Canadian initiative but one that the Trudeau government sent worldwide to destroy truckers.
“The RCMP also distributed the blacklist to online banking and investment companies, such as Questrade and WealthSimple Inc., which are both headquartered in Toronto. (Epoch Times)
“Other companies included the Australia-based app operator Douugh Bank Ltd., the now-failed Silicon Valley Bank that was based out of California, the State Street Corporation of Boston, and American-owned Edward Jones Investments.
“The RCMP offered to act as a conduit of information between provincial and territorial law enforcement and financial institutions in order for the entities to fulfill their obligations under the Emergency Economic Measures Order to cease dealings with designated individuals and to determine on a continuing basis whether they were in possession or control of property owned, held or controlled by or on behalf of a designated person,” said the Inquiry.
"By official estimate, around $7.8 million held in 267 bank and credit union accounts and 170 bitcoin wallets owned by Freedom Convoy sympathizers were frozen by federal authorities at the time of the protests.
Truckers and Freedom Convoy sympathizers were. in effect, cut off from banking worldwide, with accounts frozen based on an RCMP blacklist!
This is how far Bully Boy PM Trudeau, who absurdly self-identifies as a Feminist, and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland have gone—and are still going—to punish and take down the entire Canadian Trucking Industry.
Truckers, some of whom can no longer feed their children, have been all but eradicated—all for having a different opinion from the PM, finance minister Freeland and most other members of the Liberal Party in Ottawa.
Meanwhile, the mainstream and social media are all but patently ignoring this story.
Canadians, justly and righteously alarmed, should be asking “What industry is next?”
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