Canadian bank asks employees to secretly maintain a list of suspected Freedom Convoy supporters
(www.westernstandard.news)
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This story seems sketchy at best. It goes back to February, it has many comments by bank employees questionning this and it points to a February 23rd e-mail that was sent before the Emergencies Act was lifted, asking for compliance.
FCC is also just an Agricultural lender and is a crown corporation, not a bank like say Toronto Dominion or Royal Bank of Canada. So yes, because it lends, it's a "bank", but it's not your typical bank.
I get we support Freedom and the Convoy, but the title here stretches quite a bit and I don't like playing loose with facts.
I'm not really sure why you don't find the leaked emails credible.
The whole point of the Emergencies Act and the freezing financial services provisions was that the legislation was specifically written that the government decreed that all financial institutions were suddenly required by law to stop all financial transactions of anyone the financial institution suspected was involved with the protest.
Thus, Trudeau left the onus and the wording vague enough that it was at the discretion of the financial institutions themselves to decide whom and to what scope these provisions applied. It also shielded the banks from any due process or legal liability.
It also wasn't limited to banks and bank accounts. The legislation also targeted insurance policies, mortgages, investments, etc, etc.
After the protest itself, Trudeau and Freeland pretended that only 200 or so accounts were targeted and frozen.
But these only accounted for the 200 or so accounts the RCMP specifically compiled a list of and specifically asked institutions to take action on.
The institutions themselves had complete immunity to cutoff of any financial service of anyone then wanted on top of this 200 without any checks or balances.
This is likely why Trudeau unexpectedly called off martial law two days after he passed it through the Parliament because investor confidence had become so undermined with this new witch hunt without habeas corpus.
That's not what I said.
From my post :
"it points to a February 23rd e-mail that was sent before the Emergencies Act was lifted, asking for compliance."
So this leaked e-mail simply asked for employees of a CROWN CORPORATION (aka : Employees of the Government) to comply with the act. FCC isn't a bank per se, it's a Lender that reports to the Agricultural ministry, and isn't a private entity.
Like I said : I think the title here is quite loose with the details.
Your clarification doesn't really provide any actual clarity of your skepticism.
So what if it's not an official bank?
The whole point is that there is documented proof of a financial institution using their employees as surveillance to secretly create a blacklist of customers based on " unacceptable political views ", not of active participation in criminal activity.
If you see this as "just complying with the act/ just following orders", then I don't know what to tell you.
The fact the article quotes a leaked e-mail from before the order is lifted, and then cites no further on going compliance beyond February 28th, and has a ton of quotes of employees even questionning it is quite enough to point out how the title used here is loose.
The "bank" (again, not really a bank) didn't just decide to secretly maintain a list of Convoy supporters.
Do you know what a CROWN CORPORATION is ? It's literally a Government entity. The same Government that passed the Emergency Act.
If you think compliance to Government orders is optional when working for the Government, I don't know what to tell you.