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A week before the Emergencies Act was put in place, text messages show that Liberals were actively encouraging Canada’s banks to take action on protesters.
(LifeSiteNews) – Text message exchanges between two senior advisers from the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau show that banks were being pressured to act to freeze Freedom Convoy protesters’ accounts well before emergency measures were put in place to put an end to the protests.
Trudeau put in place the Emergencies Act on February 14, 2022, and revoked the EA on February 23.
On February 14, the day the EA was invoked, Canadian Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland mandated certain bank accounts be frozen under the EA. In total, nearly $8 million in funds from 267 people were locked. Additionally, 170 bitcoin wallets were frozen.
However, as early as February 7, 2022, text messages between Trudeau senior advisers Ben Chin and Tyler Meredith show that Trudeau Liberals were actively encouraging Canada’s banks to take action on Freedom Convoy protesters.
The text messages were entered as evidence during the monthlong Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) hearings that took place last October to November to look into Trudeau’s unprecedented use of the EA to crush the Freedom Convoy.