By invoking the Emergencies Act and giving his government sweeping powers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accidentally revealed how weak he really is. Meanwhile, the legacy media continues to do Trudeau’s bidding by doxxing and harassing individuals who supported the freedom convoy.
Despite the Establishment’s desperate attempts to stop the convoy, the truckers continue to win — provinces are dropping their mandates and the convoy is making their voice loud and clear.
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Law enforcement in Ottawa has begun to move on Freedom Convoy protest organizers after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act on Monday to quash demonstrations throughout the city.
Protestors have been in Ottawa for over three weeks now, demanding an end to all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions.
True North fellow Andrew Lawton posted a video clip of a police cruiser taking away an unidentified protestor who had just been arrested. Supporters can be heard chanting “freedom” as music plays in the background.
Crowd chants “freedom” while The Final Countdown blasts and police drive away the person they arrested. They walked into a crowd and plucked him out seemingly deliberately. No idea why or who. pic.twitter.com/RrnyFp9r04
Law enforcement gave warnings to demonstrators earlier this week that they would be subject to arrest for attending the protest.
According to the Order in Council detailing the powers granted to the government by the Emergencies Act, the feds can take “measures to regulate or prohibit any public assembly — other than lawful advocacy, protest or dissent — that may reasonably be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.”
Police plan to set up an estimated 100 checkpoints throughout Ottawa’s downtown, saying they would make sure only people working or living in the area would be allowed to enter.
“Action is imminent. It’s time to go. Your time in our city has come to an end and you must leave,” said Ottawa Police Chief Steve Bell on Thursday.
“We want people to peacefully leave. But I can tell you if they do not peacefully leave, we have plans, strategies and tactics to be able to get them to leave.”
In response to True North reporter Elie Cantin-Nantel during a Feb. 6 press conference, convoy organizers declared that they would be willing to go to jail for their beliefs.
I asked the leaders of the #FreedomConvoyCanada2022 if they would be willing to go to jail to stand for their cause of ending all COVID-19 mandates and restrictions. They all said Yes. @Tamara_MVC added that this is a hill she’s willing to die on. pic.twitter.com/NIhkFFFgmF
The Canadian Constitution Foundation (CCF) and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association (CCLA) have announced separate legal challenges against the Trudeau government for invoking the Emergencies Act to crush trucker protests across Canada.
Both organizations declared their legal action on Thursday.
The CCF said their legal challenge would be through an urgent application for judicial review at the Federal Court of Canada. Constitutional lawyers Sujit Choudhry and Janani Shanmuganathan will represent the organization.
“Prime Minister Trudeau has set a dangerous precedent by invoking the never used before federal Emergencies Act to address the current situation,” said CCF legal director Christine Van Geyn in a press release. “The high threshold for declaring a public order emergency in the Emergencies Act has not been met.”
Van Geyn said that the Canadian government has invoked the Emergencies Act as “a matter of political convenience.”
This move, she said, is “illegal and violates the rule of law. That is why we are challenging it in court.”
The Emergencies Act defines a public order emergency as “an urgent, temporary and critical situation that seriously endangers the health and safety of Canadians or that seriously threatens the ability of the Government of Canada to preserve the sovereignty, security and territorial integrity of Canada.”
“The decision to invoke the Emergencies Act, which has never been used or interpreted by the courts, is unprecedented,” Van Geyn said. “If Parliament authorizes the proclamation of a public order emergency, the courts will be the last defence of the rule of law.”
“This isn’t about the convoy versus the city. This is about the rule of law.”
CCLA lawyer and spokesperson Noa Mendelsohn Aviv also announced that their organization would be filing an application for judicial review of Trudeau’s declaration.
“The government’s emergency declaration is unprecedented and seriously infringes the Charter rights of Canadians,” said Mendelsohn Aviv at a press conference. “The government has brought in an extreme measure that should be reserved for national emergencies – a legal standard that has not been met.”
Mendelsohn Aviv warned that emergency powers should not be normalized, saying that protests are how people in democracies can spread their messages.
She went on to say that it is possible for protests to be both disruptive and peaceful without being violent.
Protests, Mendelsohn Aviv said, can be “the most effective way of raising awareness.”
“Reasonable limits can and sometimes must be imposed,” she added. “When imposing reasonable limits, police can and must exercise restraint, as must governments.”
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history to provide the federal government extra powers to respond to the trucker protests.
“It is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law,” said Trudeau.
Trudeau has said the Emergencies Act would provide police with more power to break up public gatherings deemed illegal and dangerous, including blockades and occupations.
The Freedom Convoy entered its 26th day on Thursday.
A chief official at the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) has denied claims of foreign extremist funding now being peddled by Liberal politicians and legacy media.
During a Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security meeting last Thursday, FINTRAC Deputy Director of Intelligence Barry MacKillop said that there were no signs that what was happening in Ottawa was a form of ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE).
Last week during a public safety committee meeting, FINTRAC's deputy director of intelligence denied that protests in Ottawa were a form of ideological extremism and said that the financial intel agency hadn't seen an uptick in suspicious transactions around the convoy. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/RQBZHJtXgv
IMVE is a categorization system introduced by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service in their 2019 public report.
Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohammed had asked MacKillop how concerned Canadians should be about foreign funding of extremist movements.
“We’ve seen over the course of the last little while a lot of interest from the United States in the funding situation related to GoFundMe and the blockade of Ottawa,” Noormohammed said. “We’ve seen some fairly unsavoury characters in the US like Marjorie Taylor Greene weighing in on this. How concerned should Canadians be about foreign funding or foreign funds coming into Canada and spurring on ideologically motivated violent extremism?”
“The money… what’s happening in Ottawa has not been identified to my knowledge as ideologically motivated violent extremism,” MacKillop responded. “Somebody might come into Canada to support ideologically motivated violent extremism and the United States would be extremely concerned about money leaving the States or funding such extremist actions.”
“Do you have any concerns or has there been any flags raised thus far around potential sources of funding for what has been happening in Ottawa?” asked Noormohammed.
The Trudeau government claims there is foreign extremist funding behind the freedom convoy, but CPC MP @DaneLIoydMP says the financial intelligence agency of Canada (FINTRAC) has said otherwise. #cdnpolipic.twitter.com/tMeMmmXTWr
MacKillop replied that FINTRAC has not seen an uptick in reporting on suspicious transactions related to the peaceful protests in Ottawa.
“No, the sources of funding we’ve seen to date – we have not seen a spike, and as you know I can’t speak to individual reporting or reporting on any individuals or organizations. But we have not seen a spike in suspicious transaction reporting for example related to this,” responded MacKillop.
Earlier this week Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act under the pretense that the ongoing anti-COVID-19 mandate protests have had an adverse effect on the Canadian economy and threatened the country’s economic security.
The Deputy Director of Intelligence for Canada's financial intel agency (FINTRAC) said there is no evidence of suspicious transactions around the freedom convoy.
Deputy PM Freeland says FINTRAC "lacked the necessary authorities to oversee the new world of cryptocurrency…" pic.twitter.com/53fVYDu1Gd
During Thursday’s Question Period, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland opposed FINTRAC’s characterization, claiming that the intelligence agency doesn’t have the ability to track cryptocurrency transactions.
“I spoke yesterday with the head of FINTRAC, and we are in close touch with that very important organization. The reality is that FINTRAC lacked the necessary authorities to oversee the new world of cryptocurrency and crowdsourcing payment platforms,” claimed Freeland.
To date, blockades at borders across Canada have already been dispersed.
How did we get to the point that the government would make the unprecedented decision to invoke the Emergencies Act?
The current situation didn’t start when Trudeau invoked the act. In fact, when the freedom convoy began, Trudeau escalated tensions by calling truckers and protesters every bad name he could think of.
Liberal deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland has confirmed that the RCMP has received the private information of “individuals and entities” involved with funding the Freedom Convoy and that “accounts are being frozen.”
The announcement comes only days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act to quash anti-COVID-19 mandate demonstrations in Ottawa and elsewhere.
Freeland was asked at a press conference on Thursday whether the bank accounts of individuals who had donated to the Freedom Convoy’s GoFundme and GiveSendGo fundraisers had been targetted.
Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland: "The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen." pic.twitter.com/iA69DbRJl1
“The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions, and accounts have been frozen, and more accounts will be frozen,” answered Freeland.
“Crowdfunding platforms and payment service providers have started the registration process with FINTRAC (Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada). In terms of the specifics on whose accounts are being frozen, you now have the regulations – the financial service providers have those regulations as well – and they, working with law enforcement, will be making the operational decisions.”
According to the Order in Council associated with the Act, the federal government has power to “regulate or prohibit any public assembly” that “may be expected to lead to a breach of the peace.”
The Actalso grants the Liberals powers to “require any crowdfunding platform and payment processor to report certain transactions to FINTRAC and to require any financial service provider to determine whether they have in their possession or control property that belongs to a person who participates in the blockade.”
BREAKING: Canada is now regulating crowdfunding platforms and crypto currency under the Terrorist Financing Act. pic.twitter.com/SMzVqonD8v
On Monday, Freeland had laid out how cryptocurrencies would be regulated under terrorist financing rules by the federal government during the duration of the so-called emergency.
“We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti-money laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowdfunding platforms and the payment service providers they use. These changes cover all forms of transactions including digital assets such as cryptocurrencies,” said Freeland.
The Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa (CASO) has warned parents in the Freedom Convoy to “make the necessary alternate care arrangements should they become unable to care for their children following potential police action.”
According to estimates, over 100 truckers have brought their children along for the demonstrations.
“CASO has a mandate to protect a child when their parent becomes unavailable to exercise their custodial rights over the child and the parent has not made adequate provision for the child’s care and custody,” said the organization in a press release on Wednesday.
If parents and children are separated following police action, CASO said that they would work to reunite families as soon as possible.
The warning from CASO comes after Ottawa Police had called child protective services last week to advise them on how to deal with children present in the trucker convoy.
“Almost 25 per cent of the 418 trucks have children living in them — children who could be at risk during a police operation,” said OPS then deputy chief Steven Bell.
Ottawa By-law and Regulatory Services has also notified any Freedom Convoy protesters with pets that their animals would be taken away, even permanently, if arrests take place.
“If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will be placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost,” said Ottawa By-law in a tweet on Thursday. “After eight days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished.”
Attention animal owners at demonstration
If you are unable to care for your animal as a result of enforcement actions, your animal will placed into protective care for 8 days, at your cost. After 8 days, if arrangements are not made, your animal will be considered relinquished. pic.twitter.com/OkbXc8RE3c
These warnings come as police ramp up threats of enforcement in the wake of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s implementation of the Emergencies Act on Monday.
Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act for the first time in Canadian history to provide the federal government with extra powers to manage the trucker protests.
“It is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement’s ability to effectively enforce the law,” said Trudeau.
Trudeau added that the Act would give police more power to break up gatherings deemed illegal and dangerous, including blockades and occupations.
The RCMP, he said, would be able to enforce municipal bylaws and provincial offences where needed.
The Freedom Convoy entered its 26th day on Thursday.
Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle has claimed responsibility for the illegal GiveSendGo data breach on Sunday that exposed the private information of thousands of people who donated to the Freedom Convoy fundraiser.
Cottle – who describes himself as a “cyber-terrorist” – made the statement during a TikTok livestream on Wednesday.
“Yes, I doxxed the truckers! I did it! It was me! I hacked GiveSendGo baby and I’d do it again! I’d do it a hundred times!” Cottle said to his audience. “Come at me. What are you going to do? What are you going to do to me, huh?”
Cottle also claimed to have been responsible for several other high profile cybercrimes.
“I hacked epic hosting! I hacked Parler! I hacked Gab! I hacked Truth Social! I hacked GiveSendGo! I don’t care.”
Cottle, who claims to have been part of the hacking collective Anonymous, began his career on the controversial forum 4chan. In 2021, he announced he had been retired from his activities for “a number of years.”
Cottle was also named as one of the figures behind Anonymous’s resurgence in 2020 when the group illegally leaked US law enforcement data during the George Floyd protests.
Since GiveSendGo was hacked and its data stolen, the fundraising platform’s founder Jacob Wells has called on the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to investigate.
“This is illegal, and these people should be going to jail,” Wells told Fox News. “The FBI – I mean, it’s surprising that we haven’t heard from any investigative services. We will be reaching out ourselves to just see that there’s some investigation into this. This is completely unacceptable.”
A number of Canadian businesses have been threatened and intimidated for donating to the protests trying to bring an end to COVID-19 mandates. One Ottawa business owner had to shut down her gelato cafe after she received threatening phone calls from those opposed to the demonstration.
Even prominent journalists and politicians have joined in on the mobbing by publishing the illegally obtained private information of donors.
Prominent Canadian psychologist and author Dr. Jordan B. Peterson has announced that the College of Psychologists of Ontario (CPO) is investigating him after he told someone who was concerned about overpopulation that he was “free to leave at any point.”
The offending tweet, said Peterson, was directed at McGill University medicine professor Roger Palfree, though Peterson said it was not Palfree who complained to the CPO.
I am being investigated by the Ontario College of Psychologists because of a complaint about this tweet, not submitted, by the way, by the person I responded to. I refuse to defend myself against such things anymore. It takes days of work to mount such a defence. pic.twitter.com/rJB515nKpF
“Based on the record of human behaviour, we are already overpopulating this small world,” Palfree tweeted on Jan. 2. “Any arguments I have heard for supporting such a large human population completely overlook the loss of species and ecosystems resulting from our self-absorbed attention.”
“You’re free to leave at any point,” Peterson replied.
The investigation by CPO will conclude in six months, said Peterson, though he added, “I refuse to defend myself against such things anymore. It takes days of work to mount such a defence.”
CPO serves as the governing body for psychologists and psychological associates in Ontario. Peterson said that many professions have a governing body and that those bodies become weaponized.
He added that the investigation process itself serves as the punishment and that people who submit complaints “know this full well.”
Peterson said that he would not be participating in CPO’s investigation, and he encouraged the governing body to take his licence if they wanted.
“I’ve helped perhaps millions of people with my lectures and books,” he said. “But any one person anywhere can complain to the college about anything I’ve done and threaten my licensure, smear my reputation and tie me up in red tape.”
Peterson has had prior dealings with the CPO, including an allegation of professional misconduct in 2018.
The CPO could not be reached for comment in time for publication.
Employees at a Burlington, Ontario bakery are being harassed online and at their place of business after it was revealed that one of the owners donated to the Freedom Convoy fundraiser.
In an interview with True North, Kelly’s Bake Shoppe co-owners Erinn Weatherbie and Kelly Childs stood by their $1,000 donation but say they are dismayed by the harassment they are now receiving from angry members of the public.
Weatherbie and Childs told True North about one such encounter, where a middle-aged man confronted their all-female staff over the donation at 6:15 pm on Tuesday evening.
“A man entered the bake shop and waited in line as if he was going to place an order. When one of our staff members had a chance to help him out and welcome him to the shop, he basically aggressively responded to them,” said Weatherbie.
“He said ‘Did you donate $1,000 to the trucker convoy? Do you support traitors? It’s all over social media. Were your staff involved in donating?’ He was very aggressive, and he also kept one of his hands in his pocket the whole time.”
A middle-aged man confronted the bakery’s all-female staff over the donation at 6:15 pm on Tuesday evening.
According to Weatherbie, one young female employee asked the man to leave multiple times and threatened to call the police. Earlier that day, the business also received an email from the same individual asking whether they had donated.
True North has been shown email correspondence from the individual. Another email shows an anonymous individual accusing the bakery of supporting “white supremacists.” True North is not identifying the man at this time, as he is not currently facing criminal charges. If charges are pressed, True North will identify him.
“She had to ask him – I would say at least five times – to leave the store, and he kept on basically harassing her,” said Weatherbie. “The staff on shift at the time were all young women, girls basically under the age of 25, so for a man to come in and aggressively verbally assault our staff members is shocking.”
The man eventually left on his own accord following the confrontation.
Kelly’s Bake Shoppe is now considering hiring private security and will be advising its employees to be more cautious about their personal safety. The bakery also filed a report with the police who came to review security footage.
In an interview with True North, Kelly’s Bake Shoppe co-owners Erinn Weatherbie and Kelly Childs stood by their $1,000 donation but say they are dismayed by the harassment they are now receiving from angry members of the public.
The owners’ donation to the Freedom Convoy was publicly linked to the business on Monday after hackers illegally obtained and leaked a list of all donors who gave through a GiveSendGo fundraiser. This fundraiser was launched following a previous fundraising campaign on the platform GoSendMe was cancelled by the tech firm. Anonymous Twitter accounts immediately began doxxing convoy donors, and prominent members of the legacy media and the Liberal Party of Canada were sharing the illegally hacked materials online.
“(Our staff) definitely felt threatened when I talked to them on the phone immediately after it happened,” said Weatherbie.
“We run a very kind, loving, all-inclusive business, and then you have this tyrant, belligerent human that believes that his way is the only way. You know he would be happy I guess if our bank accounts got frozen,” said Childs.
“Our staff are just loving, beautiful people. They were shocked and literally shaking.”
True North reached out to the man who harassed the bakery employees. He admitted to going to Kelly’s Bake Shoppe to ask them about the donation but said he didn’t think it was a confrontation.
“I just asked them. It was just open. I asked them to get clarity in my mind because they’re three blocks away from me. It’s disturbing that there are people involved in this convoy this close to my house. It’s scary,” he said.
“I didn’t confront them. I didn’t do anything to them.”
Additionally, he stated that while police did call him to follow-up on what happened, he is not currently facing any charges.
Since their information was illegally leaked in the GiveSendGo hack, Kelly’s Bake Shoppe has been facing a steady stream of harassment online and experienced another incident of in-person harassment.
“We had somebody outside – we don’t know who it was. I don’t have a description of this person, but he was outside and he was heckling the customers waiting outside in line,” said Weatherbie.
“He was telling them not to shop at our business,” said Childs.
Eventually, the individual ran away after employees came out and threatened to call the police.
One email shown to True North from the address f*ckyou@b*tch.com sent to the company’s careers portal called for the owners to be “dragged into the streets.”.
“You are a f*cking scumbag TRAITOR and should be dragged into the streets like the dog you are,” the anonymous sender wrote.
Other social media messages accused the business of supporting an “anti-vaxx and white supremacist” movement and “working against Canada.”
Weatherbie said she supports the truckers’ message of freedom and unity.
“We support the freedom convoy’s mission of ending the vaccine mandates and getting back to normal. We support freedom for all. Period. Like the majority of people, that was our reason for donating to the cause. We followed the rules for two years, and we’re ready for life to return to normal. It’s time” said Weatherbie.
“It’s now time for our country to unite,” Childs told True North.
