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Canada (legally) abused its judicial reach on finance institutions during the pandemic I'm similarly disgusted by that, but I thought the hearings didn't reach
by rkagerer 3y ago
Canada (legally) abused its judicial reach on finance institutions during the pandemic
I'm similarly disgusted by that, but I thought the hearings didn't reach the conclusion it was illegal?
Edit: Sorry, just realized you wrote legally, I must have misread that as illegally
- m00x 3y agoThey used the Emergencies Act, which is supposed to be used to keep the country safe from terrorism. This was obviously not terrorism, albeit very heavy-handed. This was a police matter to clear them, not something they should have gone through FINTRAC. The issue is that they can pretty much do whatever they want as long as they have majority, similar to the USA PATRIOT act of 2001. It's an obvious overreach of the legislation arm.
- rkagerer 3y agoI watched a lot of the subsequent inquiry hearings and was struck by how classically Canadian some of the 'dissidents' came across.