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Re:Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without ... by modzu on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:50PM (#30432751)
1. with a sample size in the hundreds of thousands, even if its true, it's irrelevant.

2. the state of emergency could not be in response to the border closures, because they were cleared prior. one single cachet of weapons was found. per 100,000 criminals, gee, thats better than my hood. as for honking, it should be punishable by death or bankruptcy in any civilized country.

3. yes it is. override of the charter is precisely the power the emergency act seeks

4. have you ever donated to the world wildlife fund? sponsored a child in africa? the data has already made it clear that the majority of funding came from within canada in small amounts. occams razor: this is the result of frustrated citizens, not vladimir putin

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Re:Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without ... by fudged71 on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:15PM (#30433085)
1. Canada's terrorism financing and anti-money laundering laws are very clear and very strict. The fact that they chose platforms that are not reporting to FINTRAC is suspect, and the leaked donor lists show roughly half of all donations were foreign.

2. The weapons themselves were not the problem. Gas canisters stockpiled unsafely near parliament is a huge concern. And weapons found in Coutts were directly linked to a credible threat of an attack on RCMP members (high-capacity magazines are extremely illegal).

3. The Emergencies Act is subject to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is written into the Act itself. The Charter, which continues to be supreme to the Emergency Act, forbids retroactive punishment.

4. See above. This is not a charity or nonprofit. It is a criminal organization that is under investigation.

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Re:Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without ... by modzu on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:28PM (#30433259)
3. of course the constitution (of which the charter is part) is the supreme law of canada. but, the rights and freedoms within the charter are not absolute; they can and have been been limited, as could be no more obvious than the clearing of the protest itself (the right to freedom of assembly)
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Re:Convoy Crackdown – power to freeze bank accounts without ... by Zachery on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @04:04PM (#30433775)
The Charter specifically protects peaceful assemblies. Which this was not by most measures.

https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/how-righ...

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