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Andrew Lawton on the Political Legacy of Canada’s 2022 ‘Freedom Convoy’

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The Convoy Financing in Canada

I think a lot of Canadians didn't realize how many heavy-handed measures the federal government had at its disposal to find and prevent and punish any kind of financial transaction using electronic means in Canada. I actually went out and opened a crypto account. Part of the response that Trudeau and his team made was to make it unlawful to donate to a political cause that they didn't like. And if we look at it retrospectively, the government didn't freeze that many bank accounts. There were a couple hundred accounts, not a huge number of people. The way the orders the government gave were worded, they could have gone after Gladys Pippens, who donated $5. They gave themselves

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