Committee hearings reveal Trudeau turned tyrant over false media reports
Heated exchanges Tuesday between Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and members of a special committee revealed that the Trudeau government had invoked the Emergencies Act in February based on false media reports.
Beginning in late January, a convoy of truckers called the Freedom Convoy rolled into Ottawa to peacefully protest Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s harsh vaccine mandate, which was crippling travel and livelihoods. Hundreds of thousands of Canadians joined in to protest Trudeau’s sweeping COVID-19 restrictions bringing the capital to a standstill, along with some parts of the U.S.-Canada border.
In response, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in the country’s history, which awarded him absolute powers including freezing protesters’ assets, confiscating private property and making arrests on sight.
Freeland, who also acts as Finance Minister, justified invoking the Emergencies Act by accusing the protesters of being funded by foreign entities and terrorist financing.
“The illegal blockades have highlighted the fact that crowdfunding platforms, and some of the payment service providers they use, are not fully captured under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act,” she told the press on February 14th.
“We now have the tools to follow the money, we can see what is happening and what is being planned, and we are absolutely determined that this must end now and for good,” she added three days later.
Now a special parliamentary committee tasked with investigating why the Trudeau government invoked the Emergencies Act appears to have uncovered the reason.
Just before the Emergencies Act was invoked, Canada’s CBC News – a state-run media outlet – claimed to have analyzed the convoy’s donations and concluded that it was receiving illegal foreign funds.
“The donations identified by CBC News are likely only a fraction of all the donations made by people outside of Canada,” wrote CBC reporter Elizabeth Thompson on February 10th in an article headlined “Convoy Protest Received Hundreds Of Donations That Appeared To Be From Abroad,” according to Western Standard.
In another story, Thompson wrote, “An analysis of GoFundMe donations by CBC News has revealed at least one-third of them had been made by donors who chose to remain anonymous or who listed names that were obviously fictitious or political commentary.”
A month later, after the Emergencies Act was already invoked, Western Standard reported that CBC News retracted both stories as false, as well as another story alleging that Russian actors were involved.
Furthermore, Canada regulator Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC) assessed that the funds were harmless.
In one heated exchange during Tuesday’s committee hearing, Freeland refused to answer questions by MP Larry Brock about the false stories.
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