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Your bank will freeze your account if they detect suspicious activity. Your credit card agreement likely has a provision to allow them to freeze your bank acco

Your bank will freeze your account if they detect suspicious activity. Your credit card agreement likely has a provision to allow them to freeze your bank account for non-payment. The underlying question is whether or not a financial crime is actually happening. The idea of a decentralized protest having some random "leaders" in-trusted with donations is in need of scrutiny. It doesn't matter if it's this or BLM. Where is this money coming from and who is it going to?

SpicyLemonZest 5y ago
Which authorities specifically say that this is the underlying question? When Trudeau announced the policy, he said it was about "keeping Canadians safe, protecting people's jobs" (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385) - it doesn't really sound to me like his goal was to protect protest donors from potential fraud.
- wvenable 5y ago
  The TD bank had already requested prior to the act some direction on what to do with the funds "“We are unable to release the funds without the court’s direction because multiple parties, including the account holder, intended recipients and some donors, may be entitled to the funds,” a TD spokesperson said." “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 and terrorist financing act,” said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/trudeau-gives-banks-power-to-freeze-funds-without-court-order-in-bid-to-choke-off-protest-funding https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/trudeau-gives-b... https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-wants-the-foreign-money-funding-illegal-protests-in-canada-to-stop https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-wants-the-for... It's far more exciting that Canada is turning into a communist hell hole than to just accept the situation as it is.

SpicyLemonZest 5y ago

Which authorities specifically say that this is the underlying question? When Trudeau announced the policy, he said it was about "keeping Canadians safe, protecting people's jobs" (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60383385) - it doesn't really sound to me like his goal was to protect protest donors from potential fraud.

wvenable 5y ago
The TD bank had already requested prior to the act some direction on what to do with the funds "“We are unable to release the funds without the court’s direction because multiple parties, including the account holder, intended recipients and some donors, may be entitled to the funds,” a TD spokesperson said." “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 and terrorist financing act,” said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/trudeau-gives-banks-power-to-freeze-funds-without-court-order-in-bid-to-choke-off-protest-funding https://financialpost.com/fp-finance/banking/trudeau-gives-b... https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-wants-the-foreign-money-funding-illegal-protests-in-canada-to-stop https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/trudeau-wants-the-for... It's far more exciting that Canada is turning into a communist hell hole than to just accept the situation as it is.