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Here's David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. He was asked directly whether or not people who donate to the movement should be worri
by daenz 5y ago
Here's David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. He was asked directly whether or not people who donate to the movement should be worried.[0]
>If you are a member of a pro-Trump movement who is donating hundreds of thousands of dollars or millions of dollars to this kind of thing, then you ought to be worried.
Can you understand now why people may be concerned about the scope of who is being targeted, regardless of what the RCMP claims they're doing? A high ranking official made it clear that donators are under the microscope based on their political affiliations.
0. https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/1494115333136867329 https://twitter.com/RebelNewsOnline/status/14941153331368673...
- JamisonM 5y agoIDK, he said the scope is a donation of over $100,000 - so probably zero people should be worried?
- daenz 5y agoI took it to mean if the "movement" (of which you are a member) is donating that much money, but I can see your interpretation as well. It's ambiguous, which is not a good look for an official on such an important topic.
- JamisonM 5y agoReasonable people can disagree but I do see what you mean - I thank you for your honest consideration of my opinion, a rare treat! Subsequent statements and clarifications have made it clear that these donors were not subject to any action, this freaking government.. they just can't quite figure out how to make a clear statement about anything, despite seeming like they are constantly reading talking points - it drives me up the wall.
- staticman2 5y agoWell having googled that quote and found nothing by a normal news site I'm not clear why anyone would think the Twitter account you linked to is anything other than pure fiction.
- busymom0 5y agoIt's a video. Unless you claim the video is somehow deep faked, his words corroborate what the comment says. And if you don't want to trust that, then here's direct link to CTVNews where he says those words at 3:26 mark: https://youtu.be/Qisd2juHvps?t=206 https://youtu.be/Qisd2juHvps?t=206
- pkd 5y agoIf you listen to the next question, it seems like he was talking about people in the U.S. donating to the movement.
- daenz 5y agoWhich is strange if that is the case because they have no jurisdiction to make any kind of veiled threats towards U.S. citizens.
- telephone2 5y agoThe whole point was controlling points of access for international funds (ie. the GoFundMe, GiveSendGo, crypto).
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoThey could ban those donors from ever entering Canada but that's about it. If they successfully pull off equating the truckers with terrorists, then they could request the US extradite them but that's pretty far fetched. Then again, pretty much everything they've done has been far fetched so who knows what they'll try next.
- catgary 5y agoI mean, Canada has jurisdiction over whether or not they can enter Canada, do business in Canada, freeze assets in Canadian banks, etc.
- busymom0 5y agoWhy would he be talking about US people? He has zero jurisdiction over that. And even if he were talking about US people, that still wouldn't make such comments okay. Canadians donate to US protests all the time and vice versa. Plus, the Deputy Director of Intelligence for Canada's financial intel agency (FINTRAC) said there is no evidence of suspicious transactions around the freedom convoy: https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-spike-in-suspicious-transaction-reporting-amid-trucker-convoy-protests-financial-intelligence-expert-1.5776170 https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/no-spike-in-suspicious-trans... So what exactly is his point?