Josh Dehaas: A long struggle for due process
The emergency measures required financial institutions to search their records for customers suspected of “directly or indirectly” engaging in a “public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace,” or “directly or indirectly” using their money to facilitate such protests, and then seize their accounts.
That’s a classic general warrant, a writ of assistance in fact, enlisting banks to help King Trudeau and Queen Freeland hunt down their political enemies without going before a judge to prove reasonable grounds that a specific offence had been committed by a specific person. Section 8 is designed to keep us secure against unreasonable searches and seizures by the executive, and the only way for individuals to maintain this security is by requiring specific warrants from an independent judiciary, barring exigent circumstances.
This profound assault on our section 8 right will hopefully be raised during Justice Paul Rouleau’s inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act, despite Trudeau’s attempt to focus the inquiry on the truckers themselves. Even if section 8 doesn’t get examined during the inquiry, the Canadian Civil Liberties Association expects to raise it in Federal Court if they’re successful in convincing a judge to review the decision to declare the protests a national emergency.
To understand just how precious this protection truly is, it’s worthwhile to spend a moment examining its origins in Canadian constitutional law, which is inherited from the United Kingdom.
The report will be Shakespearean: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. If Prinz Dummkopf will be found to have been the bad guy, he’ll be reprimanded….. for not going far enough.
The wording is amazing.
How does one indirectly engage in a public assembly? Does watching the news on television count?
“public assembly that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace,”
So financial institutions are charged with assisting in the enforcement of prosecution of crimes of thought.
So Justinian.
Its unbelievable how far Canada has fallen.
A trip to the EU might be dangerous
“The world is getting scary…
Anatoly Shariy, an ethnic Ukrainian YouTuber, was just arrested by Spanish federal police for the crime of “discrediting the state policy of Ukraine.”
https://national-conservative.com/spain-arrests-youtube-star-with-3-million-subs-for-criticizing-the-ukrainian-government/ ”
Via Chiefio
How about we directly or indirectly remove this government from office before they start a civil war.
The former is going to require the latter.
This!
The whitewashing report has already been written. It will disparage we the subjects and praise Dear Leader. The carefully orchestrated inquiry will just be theatre for the loyal presstitutes to “report” on.
This is why we need Romanians.
Or a population with an average IQ in the positive double digits. Sadly, we have neither.
I think you mean triple digits.
Its worse than you thought it was!
No…no, I think he was right the first time.
I meant positive double digits. Too many are in negative territory.
Gentlemen, let’s just get the Romanians first.
Only in a dictatorship would this violation of basic rights happen with so little comment or controversy in the media or parliament. People write about this on Substack because the mainstream media won’t publish it. The only reasonable conclusion to be drawn is that we live in a dictatorship. And it will probably come after everyone here eventually.
and the banks were eager to help… while concealing the extent from their customers
Where are you going to find a Judge in Canada that is not compromised and totally in the tank for the Liberals?
Have any of the morons in the Trudeau media even noticed the inquiry?
What would happen to them if they were to notice?
And endless circle of corruption, threats, and handouts.
Asking for a friend, don’t freeze me bro.
Thus will not get fixed within the confines of Canada. This is not a Trudeau or Freeland problem. This is a canada problem. If you think this will get fixed by pollievre or Bernier you are deluding yourself.
I’m not so sure this will be a whitewash.
Mind you I’m quite aware of the current situation that it’s the most likely outcome.
But I’m old enough to remember the Gomery inquiry and how things started going sideways for the liberals.
And remember that the leisure suit doesn’t have near the smarts of Chrétien nor is he as patronizing as Martin, that boy is all pretence and arrogance.
So I am going to be the optimist on this one, but won’t be surprised if this just ends up being a dog and pony show for nothing, and no one will be called to account.
The LIberal gangsters got away with stealing 100″s of millions of dollars from the treasury ( using the coded phrase, “its for bilingualism” ) none of them were punished or jailed with the exception of some random low level bureaucrat, the party was just getting its criminal enterprise warmed up.
The Turdhole/NDP dicktratorship will get away with their crimes against the truckers and protestors, thats how corrupt shitholes work.
Let the cover up and the demonizing of the protestors commence.
Nothing will come of this. It’s theater. The left has permeated the entire government and the courts and the media is bought and paid for.
Canada is not better than Ukraine when it come to corruption.
Fixable? Yes. Gonna happen? Maybe in a generation or three in Canada and/or the US. Europe looks like it’ll be a century long lost cause.
As far as I can tell, best way to weather it that I can think of if to do what I did, head north. The King’s Writ, be it Trudeau’s or Biden’s handler’s, walks slower and slower, rather than runs, the farther north you get.
Meanwhile, keep your powder dry, assuming you’re allowed to have any.
Referring to the CRF as anything more than glorified asswipe, as opposed to a legal document that actually means something, should be an indictable offence.
Does anybody know if there was a bank run in response to the freezing of accounts? Do we know how many accounts were frozen? Does anyone here work in banking and have any insight?
I ask as I have stopped doing business with TD Waterhouse because of TD freezing accounts in advance of the emergency measures nonsense. My advisor there keeps calling me and wants me to come back. He claims that TD froze the accounts as they “raised money laundering flags” because of the sudden influx of funds — the freezing was just normal procedure under money laundering rules and procedures. My advisor also claims only a few high-profile accounts were frozen and then subsequently cleared after the source of the money was determined. He also denies that there was any run on Canadian banks in general.
I’m just wondering if anyone can comment on this. There were several comments on SDA about people pulling money out and moving it to other institutions, but has there been anything official or hinted at by insiders? I know this would be covered up and not reported by the MSM if it did indeed happen. But if it did happen, surely there’d be more rumors about it floating around by now.
Yes there was a run in the banks. It was enough to get the bankers mad at Dear Leader. It was likely their influence that ended the imposed EA measures. Fraulein Freehand is still pushing to continue the freezing measures. Bankers might not be happy Lieberals for much longer.
Indeed there was a run on the banks and it hasn’t stopped. Canadians being Canadians didn’t pull out all at once but the banks have been bleeding since the Protest. Call it a death by a thousand cuts. A lot of us have pulled money out, bit at a time so as not to start an avalanche that would bankrupt the country, but that may have been unwise. Perhaps a stronger message to send to the elites would be to cause a severe run, as that would cause more of a disaster than a general strike. Closing saving accounts that pay less than the rate of inflation and conducting all other business in cash rather than credit or debit cards would bring the banking industry to it’s knees and perhaps senses. This would cause a national crisis which in return would cause a general election. At the rate the Libs/Dips are proceeding any money that you have saved over the last number of years will be worth at least 10% less by this time next year. Government pensions will not be able to keep up with the rising costs of inflation so anybody with a government pension is going to be SOoL very shortly. I’ll probably have someone knocking on my door shortly but I’m past the point of caring.
My friends pulled their money out of TD and put it in a Credit Union.
My Credit Union rep called me after a survey this spring, saying they didn’t freeze any accounts, and they have to do what the government says.
She admitted lots of people withdrew money from banks, and was silent when I told her Cresit Unions should have the integrity of the people that started them.
I can’t think of a bigger waste of time then having another fake inquiry into the international globalist criminal organization known as, the Turdhole Party.
Lets just cut to the chase and let the criminal actions of the Turdhole/NDP dicktratorship against the protestors go unpunished and even rewarded.
Why do we have to go through this perverse charade every time the Turdhole/NDP decide to terrorize Canadians or commit willful criminal acts ?
Just let them get away with whatever lawlessness and criminal acts they committed and move on. No need for the theatre of the criminally insane.
Canada isn’t a post-nation, but a failed nation.
How do I know? Justin Trudeau is a racist, corrupt, lying, piece of shit and he’s the Prime Minister.
Justin Trudeau is a racist, corrupt, lying, piece of shit and he’s the Prime Minister.
And the soyboys, cat ladies, and alphabetties just love him.
Well said buddy.
NEVER EVER trust the govt or the banks,.
There was a run on the banks.The head of the banks said itw was small and insignificant.OTH the head of the credit unions state it was large and significant.
The banks are every bit as crooked as the govt.
They took you money once and THEY WILL DO IT AGAIN.
Canadian courts are as stacked against Canadians as the government is.
just[in] the notion of a thought crime is so, so . . . . . leftist liberal.