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Trudeau froze the bank accounts of truck drivers who didn’t take the Covid vaccine…

If the best propaganda contains a bit of truth, this would be good propaganda because the amount of truth is minuscule.

A Canadian prime minister does not have the executive authority of an American president. A Canadian prime minister does not have the authority to do what you say Trudeau did. That authority rests with the Governor in Council. People claiming otherwise have as much sense as those Canadians who claimed they had rights under the “First Amendment”.

“… the Emergencies Act authorizes the “Governor in Council … subject to the supervision of Parliament, to take special temporary measures that may not be appropriate in normal times” which nonetheless remain “subject [namely] to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Canadian Bill of Rights.”

The bank accounts that were frozen did not target truck drivers who didn’t get covid vaccinations.

The bank accounts of many truck drivers who were unvaccinated were not affected.

Many of the bank accounts that were affected were not those of truck drivers.

Financial institutions were to,

“Temporarily cease providing any financial or related services when an account is being used by, on behalf or for the benefit of any person engaged, directly or indirectly, in prohibited activities set out under sections 2 to 5 of the Emergency Measures Regulations;”

It affected only accounts that did those things after the February 15, 2022 invocation of the EMR.

“the Canadian Bankers Association noted that banks were trying to respect the spirit and intent of the Order to ensure that they were only freezing accounts linked to individuals or entities that were understood to be engaged in illegal activities””

Most of the bank accounts that were temporarily frozen were released within days, starting on February 21, 2022.

Citations:

INVOCATION OF THE EMERGENCIES ACT AND RELATED MEASURES

Most bank accounts frozen under Emergencies Act are being released

But of course, none of this matters to propagandists.