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In reply to the discussion: TD Bank freezes 2 personal accounts that had $1.1 million paid into them to support Canadian trucker [View all]TrollBuster9090
(6,114 posts)For what it's worth, the Emergency Powers Act that Trudeau is invoking was actually passed in 1988 by a Conservative Party government.
Protesting is legal. Civil disobedience isn't legal, but it's a common practice that's often used by left wing protests. Example: left wing protesters chaining their necks to gates to logging roads to prevent logging of old growth forests. That happens all the time. The locks are cut, they're arrested, they get a day of TV news coverage, and that's it.
This is different in that it shut half the Canadian supply chain down, costs hundreds of millions in wages; and (worst of all) is foreign funded. A typical Canadian federal election costs about $500 million. That means, all the people in Canada, reaching into their pockets to donate to political parties raises about $500 million. It's absolutely unheard of for Canadians to raise $14 million for a protest. Most of this money is coming from foreign, professional shit disturbers. Since most of the money comes from foreign interference, I don't have a problem with freezing those particular accounts. If a left wing cause was ever supported that way in Canada, I like to think I'd oppose that, too.
If I ever cheer for a BLM protest occupying Ottawa with $14 million in funds from U.S. agent provocateurs, please feel free to call me a hypocrite.