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Freedom Dies in Canada: Trudeau Govt to Make Some of Their New Authoritarian Measures Permanent - Patriot United News
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Freedom is dying in Canada as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has announced they will be making some of their new authoritarian measures permanent.
While it was already well established that Canada wasn’t exactly a free country leading up to Trudeau’s authoritarian crackdown, the dictatorship-lover is now taking it to a whole new level.
Robert Spencer, an author and a columnist over at PJ Media, recently wrote an article comparing Trudeau’s Emergencies Act to Adolf Hitler’s Enabling Act, which established Hitler’s dictatorship. The article foreshadowed what was to come, as Spencer pointed out that Hitler’s Enabling Act was intended to be temporary, but when it came up for renewal, it ended up being permanent because his opponents had all been outlawed, imprisoned, or killed, and there was no one left to raise a dissenting voice. Although Trudeau has not killed/removed his opposition, his government is signaling that they have no intentions of keeping their word that the “temporary” Emergencies Act will be temporary.
When he announced that he was invoking the order, Justin Trudeau promised the Canadian people that the new measures would “be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.”
Obviously, that was a lie.
On Friday, February 18th, Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the Trudeau regime intended to make some of the authoritarian measures granted to them by the Emergencies Act permanent.
This is exactly how democracies die.
When the Emergencies Act was initially invoked on February 14th, Freeland explained that the government would be freezing the bank accounts of the protesters from the Freedom Convoy.
“As part of invoking the Emergencies Act, we are announcing the following immediate actions: First: 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,” she said.
In the government’s attempt to strangle the Freedom Convoy protest financially, Freeland said:
“As of today, all crowdfunding platforms, and the payment service providers they use, must register with FINTRAC [Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada] and they must report large and suspicious transactions to FINTRAC. This will help mitigate the risk that these platforms receive illicit funds; increase the quality and quantity of intelligence received by FINTRAC; and make more information available to support investigations by law enforcement into these illegal blockades. This is about following the money. This is about stopping the financing of these illegal blockades. We are today serving notice, if your truck is being used in these illegal blockades your corporate accounts will be frozen.”
Even on February 14th, she admitted that the government’s ability to financially destroy its own citizens would be something they would be seeking to make permanent, stating: “The government will also bring forward legislation to provide these authorities to FINTRAC on a permanent basis.”
On February 18th, she doubled down on this, stating (arrogantly and incoherently):
“Uh, in terms of the financial instruments which our government is using right now to act against these illegal blockades and illegal occupation, uh, we reviewed very, very carefully the tools at the disposal of the federal government, uh, and we used all the tools that we had prior to invocation of the Emergencies Act, and we determined that we needed some additional tools. Now, some of those tools, uh, we will be putting forward, uh, measures to put those tools permanently in place. Uh, the authorities of FINTRAC, I believe, do need to be expanded to cover crowdsourcing platforms, uh, and, uh, payment platform — and their payment providers. Uh, so that’s, that is something that we need to do, and we will do, and that needs to be in place permanently.”
As Spencer points out for PJ Media, “What that means is that the Trudeau regime will seek to put its ability to seize dissidents’ bank accounts on a permanent basis.”
While Freeland is admitting that the Trudeau government is going to be keeping some of their authoritarian measures permanently, she did say that the government does plan on giving up some of its freedom-crushing powers when the so-called “emergency” is over.
Freeland stated:
“Uh, some of these other tools, uh, like, uh, the sharing of information between law enforcement and financial services, and the requirement of financial services to be reviewing their accounts proactively, and the immunity from prosecution that we have provided to them in doing this, these are extraordinary measures, measures that we absolutely believe are necessary in the current circumstances, that are having an impact, and let me also point out, having a peaceful impact. Uh, and the other aspect of the financial tools that I would point to as being really effective and important is, uh, being clear that insurance on trucks that participate in these illegal occupations and blockades will be suspended. So we didn’t have those tools. Uh, I don’t believe that those tools should be part of the toolbox of a government in ordinary times, but they are necessary in these extraordinary circumstances, and they are having a very clear impact.”
If Trudeau’s opposition in the government doesn’t put a stop to this immediately, this may be looked back on as the moment that freedom died in Canada. But it doesn’t appear that anything will be done. Justin Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland seem to be getting their way, and destroying the lives of any average Canadian who opposes them, without paying any political penalties whatsoever.
Anastasia Boushee is a conservative writer who got her start in politics at one of the first TEA Party protests in 2009 in Hartford, Connecticut, at just 15 years old. She lives in the mountains of Colorado, and writes for her local newspaper as a correspondent.
