#Canada uses the banking system to try to subdue #protest:

From Bloomberg:

"banks, investment firms [...etc..] must determine whether they’re in 'possession or control of property' of a person who’s attending an illegal protest or providing supplies to demonstrators,"

"If they find such a person in their customer list, they must freeze their accounts and report it to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or Canada’s intelligence service"

"Any suspicious transactions must also be reported to the country’s anti-money-laundering agency, known as Fintrac."

Incomprehensible levels of financial surveillance and work for auditors there.

Trudeau says it's "reasonable and proportionate to the threats the country faces"

Crikey.

Canada must be able to fall apart completely because of this mighty unstopable enemy if this is reasonable and proportionate.

Bloomberg:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-16/trudeau-s-financial-dragnet-covers-portfolio-managers-insurers

Trudeau Anti-Protest Law Sweeps Across Canada Finance Sector

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s emergency orders aimed at cutting off funds to protesters have cast a wide net across the Canadian financial industry, forcing portfolio managers and securities firms to take a harder look at who they are doing business with.

Bloomberg

I don't really care about vaccine mandates very much at all. Mildly against them but it's not anywhere near the top of my concern list.

I am against the financial oppression of protest organizations though. Very much so.

They're asking all those banking orgs to track bitcoin addresses too.

Simultaneously a demonstration of why state-independent financial networks are needed, and a serious test of the biggest one. Lets see if it passes that test.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1493967549251432451

Bitcoin Magazine on Twitter

“🚨 BREAKING: Canada federal police force DEMANDS regulated financial firms CEASE transacting with Freedom Convoy #Bitcoin addresses”

Twitter

@pre
THIS.

IS.

SPARTA!

This is the first time that regular people are getting the #AssangeTreatment so-to-speak.

They are not going to succeed. They will be robbed. And or be forced to recede. And will dedicate the next year or so to becoming more knowledgeable of all things bitcoin/monero etc.

Its a journey of discovery and near impossible to learn it effectively and safely at a few #truckStops on the wide open road with maybe poor internet coverage.

@dsfgs

The interesting thing is that Russia appears to be readying it's bitcoin banking.

Would Russia respect Canadian requests to track bitcoin through mixers?

Should it?

International tensions.

Gawd. Bitcoin could end up causing or preventing nuclear war, the world is plenty crazy enough for either.