Wed Nov 23, 2022 – 2:15 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — Cabinet members within Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s federal government had discussed seizing the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy supporter’s almost immediately after invoking the Emergencies Act (EA).
According to Blacklock’s Reporter, secret meeting notes reveal that Trudeau’s Minister of Public Safety, Marco Mendicino, told his fellow cabinet members just one day after the unprecedented invocation of the EA that the act allowed for “the seizure of funds.”
“The Prime Minister noted – (censored) – the RCMP is now able to share information with banks so that accounts could be frozen. The Minister of Public Safety noted that this sharing of information has enabled the seizure of funds,” reads the minutes of the clandestine meeting that took place on February 15.
On February 14 – the day the EA was invoked – Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland mandated certain bank accounts be frozen under the EA. In total, nearly $8 million in funds from 267 people were frozen. Additionally, 170 bitcoin wallets were frozen.
Freeland noted to reporters at the time that banks and credit unions would be able “to immediately freeze or suspend an account
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