Is Digital Tyranny Possible in Canada？
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Summary
Is digital tyranny possible in Canada? Is the government trying to shut off your access to the internet and financial services because they don't like what you're doing in the protest ? Or are they trying to silence you because they're scared of the protest movement
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is digital tyranny possible in canada and the answer is yes it's already happened i'm one of
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the people it's happened to so i'm quite aware of it so what happened during the convoy the
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government truly decided it didn't like the convoy didn't like the people there whatever
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so they froze bank accounts they froze payment systems they froze credit cards and stuff
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like that so when they were asked afterwards like why did they do this the rcmp assistant commissioner
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fellow by the name of arcand actually stated that the purpose was directed at key protest figures and
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they wanted to quote discourage the people that are influencing the protests unquote so they weren't
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saying criminal money was involved they weren't saying terrorist money was involved they weren't
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saying you were funding anything illegal they said it was done to discourage people so in other words
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they were trying to use shutting off your financial life as a way of silencing you now they also said
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in later testimony and this was amazing that they said it out loud that it was designed to discourage
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other people from donating to the convoy in other words they were going to illegally crush the lives
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of some people to frighten everyone else now most fascinating was the fin track uh director of
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intelligence that testified and fin track is supposed to track terrorist money criminal money uh offshore
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tax evasion money that kind of stuff and the director of intelligence there a guy by the name of
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barry mccullough said he didn't actually see any threat from the convoy as far as he was concerned
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there was no terrorism money no criminal money no drug money nothing