Canada Unfreezes Some Pro-Convoy Accounts as Anti-Convoy Crowd Sues for Damages: Report

The Canadian government ruthlessly cracked down on peaceful protesters demonstrating against the government’s draconian COVID-19 mandates. The powers-that-be are now threatening to freeze the accounts of participants, organizers and donors. 

Get out of the pan and in to the fire. The freedom convoy’s peaceful protest may be routed, but the trials of its participants are far from over. “The federal government says the [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] are working with financial institutions to ‘unfreeze’ bank accounts locked by emergency orders that targeted people who organized, participated in, or donated to the so-called Freedom Convoy blockades,” Canadian news outlet Toronto Star reported Feb. 22. However, their battles have only just begun, as “a group of Ottawa citizens, businesses, and employees who are suing key organizers of the so-called Freedom Convoy 2022 won a sweeping order to preserve their ability to recover damages.”

Canada declared that citizens can sue protestors, organizers, and donors to oblivion, rather than just the government’s authority. Judge Calum MacLeod of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice reportedly explained his rationale: “Even if the defendants are ultimately found to be lawfully exercising constitutional rights of protest and dissent, it does not follow that in the exercise of those rights they do not have responsibilities to their fellow citizens.”

The Star reported that over 200 accounts and a massive amount of assets had been frozen: “The Department of Finance officials said the emergency order issued by the Trudeau government led to between 206 to 210 accounts being frozen, totalling some $7.8 million.” The Star summarized further that money and assets in multiple forms had been frozen on a wide scale: 

“On Monday, the RCMP said it had frozen 219 financial ‘products’ and disclosed 57 ‘entities,’ along with the ‘addresses of 253 bitcoin shared with virtual currency exchangers; and, the proactive freezing of the account of a payment processor for a value of $3.8M by a financial institution.’”

On whether American victims can sue left-wing radical rioters for $2B in damage in America, 2020, or those who set fire to churches across Canada 2021, the jury is still out. 

Chrystia Freiland, Canadian Deputy Prime Minster, announced initially that payments processors and banks will have the power to stop Canadian Freedom Convoy protestors from accessing their bank accounts. This is without the need for a court order. The action allowed the state to seize bank accounts of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s political opponents without a court order, and remove “any citizen’s recourse to the courts,” Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant said. Freeland said that cryptocurrency wallets can also be frozen.

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