Not too long ago we saw the Canadian government freeze bank accounts of people for protesting the Covid measures. Don’t think that it cannot happen in your country.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin...
Your point stands that governments/courts decide what is illegal and that they have the power to freeze bank accounts when those accounts are used to fund illegal activities.
There's certainly ... nuance you're taking for granted in declaring a mix of political protest and political protest illegal.
That’s interesting to hear, because a group of political activist have occupied a couple of city blocks in my city for a couple of weeks, declared independence, intimidated and harassed residents and businesses, and murdered a bunch of people there, but nobody has ever been arrested or prosecuted for any of that (including murders). Maybe the Canadians have heard the story of CHAZ and thought they their government will also be as lenient. Turns out that they were very wrong.
Were they a designated criminal group at the time of donation? It seems strange to go after the donors rather than freezing the bank accounts of the recipients. The way I see it, there are only two possibilities:
1. the groups in question were declared criminal organizations, and therefore their bank accounts should be frozen and future donations should be blocked/banned
2. the groups in question weren't declared criminal organizations, and therefore it should be okay to donate to them.
Should criminals be denied all access to the financial system?
Even if the criminal is not receiving money for criminal cause?
Do criminals have the right to buy food?
So yes, they have the right to buy food, but also the obligation to answer for their crimes in an open court. Can't have one without the other.
Is it ok to prevent an innocent person from buying food?
That seems like an incredibly disproportionate response, and makes me think that Canadian banks really are unsafe
> In a statement released Monday, the RCMP said it only provided banks with the names of convoy organizers and the owners of trucks who had refused to leave the protest area. The RCMP said it did not release an exhaustive list of every donation made.
> "At no time did we provide a list of donors to financial institutions," the statement said.
The only reports of accounts being indiscriminately frozen came from hearsay:
> Some Conservative MPs have said constituents have reported that their bank accounts were frozen after they made donations to the convoy protest through one of its crowdfunding campaigns.
Most of the reports were fictitious constituents that "lost bank account access to buy groceries". Nobody was able to independently confirm any of these claims.
I didn't even know anybody was trying to remove the right for Manitoba to be a province of Canada.
Those are not the same thing.