Action4Canada - September 19, 2022


Is Digital Tyranny Possible in Canada？


Episode Stats


Length

1 minute

Words per minute

153.54541

Word count

288

Sentence count

1


Summary

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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

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 is digital tyranny possible in canada and the answer is yes it's already happened i'm one of
00:00:13.880 the people it's happened to so i'm quite aware of it so what happened during the convoy the
00:00:19.540 government truly decided it didn't like the convoy didn't like the people there whatever
00:00:23.660 so they froze bank accounts they froze payment systems they froze credit cards and stuff
00:00:29.860 like that so when they were asked afterwards like why did they do this the rcmp assistant commissioner
00:00:37.900 fellow by the name of arcand actually stated that the purpose was directed at key protest figures and
00:00:45.580 they wanted to quote discourage the people that are influencing the protests unquote so they weren't
00:00:53.080 saying criminal money was involved they weren't saying terrorist money was involved they weren't
00:00:59.200 saying you were funding anything illegal they said it was done to discourage people so in other words
00:01:06.180 they were trying to use shutting off your financial life as a way of silencing you now they also said
00:01:12.220 in later testimony and this was amazing that they said it out loud that it was designed to discourage
00:01:17.220 other people from donating to the convoy in other words they were going to illegally crush the lives
00:01:22.380 of some people to frighten everyone else now most fascinating was the fin track uh director of
00:01:30.080 intelligence that testified and fin track is supposed to track terrorist money criminal money uh offshore
00:01:38.300 tax evasion money that kind of stuff and the director of intelligence there a guy by the name of
00:01:43.780 barry mccullough said he didn't actually see any threat from the convoy as far as he was concerned
00:01:48.540 there was no terrorism money no criminal money no drug money nothing