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Financial transactions: Trudeau makes surveillance PERMANENT

20 Febbraio 2022 by

… As all eyes were trained on the aggressive police sweep

… Justin Trudeau’s administration was quietly moving

… to implement a sweeping expansion of surveillance power at the federal level

… broader assault on Canadian civil liberties

… bring crowdfunding and payment service providers

… under the permanent control of a centralized government authority

… all forms of digital transactions, including cryptocurrencies, to be reported to Fintrac

… the unilateral power to freeze bank accounts and cancel insurance policies

… without so much as a court order

… no recourse for those he targets

… punitive action against political dissidents expands beyond the truckers themselves

… private citizens … possibility of a freeze on their bank accounts, too

… one young woman has already been fired from her job in the Ontario provincial government for making a $100 donation

… he promised the Canadian people that his expanded authorities

… would “be time-limited, geographically targeted, as well as reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address.”

… Not a single part of that sentence has proved to be true

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