We are all aware that Trudeau, in invoking the Emergencies Act, instructed financial institutions to freeze the accounts of people who donated to the convoy. What we are now just starting to realize is the efforts made by financial institutions themselves, before and after the EA invocation.

Evidence shows the Assiniboine Credit Union (Winnipeg) actively monitored a client’s social media accounts, as well as account transactions, where they noted the individual had ‘liked’ the Freedom Convoy Facebook page. This, in their view, was enough to justify reporting them to RCMP as potentially ‘being involved’. They further admitted to monitoring accounts prior to the activation of the EA.

Another Canadian bank was monitoring purchase activity, and both froze the account of a client, and reported them to the RCMP for ‘suspicious activity ‘, for the purchase of a gas mask at an army surplus store.

Yet another instance shows Desjardins Group reporting anyone they believed to be making financial donations to the convoy, including one family that they claimed spent $20K (of their own money) on signage.

One bank executive even suggesting that labelling convoy supporters as terrorists could expedite their efforts and that military intervention should be used.

The lead paragraph from the Canadian Bankers Association reads “One of the most valuable services a bank can provide is the ability to protect its customers’ privacy. Canada’s banks have recognized this from the beginning and are leaders in keeping their customers’ personal information accurate, confidential, private, and secure.”  Yet it is clear that the financial institutions, at the behest of government overreach, clearly forgot to protect customers privacy.  Privacy that is not only protected by the Charter but also by the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. 

If there is one thing the Public Order Emergency Commission has done for the Canadian people, is to have shown the total disregard for the process of law by the Federal government.  And now it has shown the same of our Financial Institutions.

To read the article written by Anthony Murdoch of Life Site News, click here