Trudeau regime distributed Freedom Convoy blacklist to CCP, records show
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government last year distributed a blacklist containing the names of political dissidents to foreign banks, including the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) Bank of China, records show.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time ever on February 14, 2022 after a convoy of truckers descended on Ottawa to peacefully protest Trudeau’s heavy-handed COVID-19 mandates. The Emergencies Act allowed the prime minister to ban gatherings and protests, to wield law enforcement at will, to prohibit or regulate travel and to requisition personal property, including the seizure of private and corporate funds and bank accounts. Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland froze the funds of political dissidents, including cryptocurrency accounts, accusing them of being foreign agents.
According to records obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter, Freeland’s team compiled a list of 201 trucking companies involved with the Freedom Convoy and had the Royal Canadian Mounties Police (RCMP) distribute that list to Canadian corporate officers of banks around the world. That list included the CCP-owned Bank of China, the State Bank of India, BNP Paribas of France, Citibank of New York, Habib Bank of Pakistan, Hana Financial Group of South Korea, ICICI Bank Limited of India, Mizuho Financial Group of Japan, Wells Fargo & Company of San Francisco, and Silicon Valley Bank.
There were no restrictions placed on who could access the list.
About $7.8 million belonging to Freedom Convoy supporters were frozen across 267 bank and credit union accounts, as well as 170 Bitcoin wallets, reports the Western Standard. This was aside from the nearly-$8 million the Freedom Convoy had raised on GoFundMe before the crowdfunding giant froze the funds due to “evidence” of “violence” which later was found to be a ruse.
The “evidence” consisted of claims made by Canadian state media and the Trudeau regime that the Freedom Convoy represented the “threat of political violence” though a high-ranking Canadian intelligence official confirmed that there was no such threat.
“The lack of violent crime was shocking,” said Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Superintendent Pat Morris in his testimony before a federal committee in October.
In a November Parliamentary inquiry regarding Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act, government officials said they were pressured by the Biden administration to move against the Freedom Convoy.
Freeland testified that she received a call on February 10th from National Economic Council Director Brian Deese, Biden’s top economic advisor. Deese expressed the administration’s concern about the economic impact of the protests, which were blockading strategic parts of the US-Canada border and costing over $300 million a day in trade. The blockade was also throttling access to Michigan, whose car manufacturing plants rely on imported parts from their northern neighbor.
“They are very, very, very worried,” Freeland wrote in an email to her staff. “If this is not sorted out in the next 12 hours, all of their northeastern car plants will shut down.”
An analysis by Transport Canada estimated the blockades cost C$3.9 billion in halted trade.
The same day, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg contacted his Canadian counterpart, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra, for a “plan to resolve” the blockades. Alghabra said the move was “highly unusual.”
Trudeau’s Deputy Chief of Staff Brian Clow was also pressured by the Biden administration, including Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council Senior Director for the Western Hemisphere Juan Gonzalez. Gonzalez asked Clow to arrange a meeting between Trudeau’s National Security Advisor Jody Thomas and officials at the Department of Homeland Security.
The meeting, which reportedly included Joe Biden, took place on February 11, 2022.
“POTUS was quite constructive,” Clow told Freeland after the discussion. “There was no lecturing. Biden immediately agreed this is a shared problem.”
Biden also alluded to another convoy headed for Washington, D.C., inspired by the Freedom Convoy. Trudeau spoke with Biden about pressure the Americans could bring to bear on the Freedom Convoy using “money, people, and political/media support.”
Three days later, Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act. The justification for Trudeau seizing these excessive powers, according to the cabinet order, was in part based on “the threat or use of acts of serious violence” and “the potential for an increase in the level of unrest and violence that would further threaten the safety and security of Canadians.”
