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OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — During testimony before the Public Order Emergency Commission last Thursday, it was revealed that one Canadian bank executive suggested Freedom Convoy protesters could be labeled as “terrorists” to allow for a quick freezing of their funds, while another banker took the opposite position and cautioned against politicizing banks.
The revelations came about during Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s testimony before the commission, and was sourced from a heavily redacted readout of conversations between her and Canadian banking CEOs on February 13, the day before Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act (EA).
“I am told this is a public safety lead, but if you list them as people subject to sanctions (as if they are terrorists) we could act swiftly,” one banker said to Freeland.
Freeland’s handwritten notes from her conversation with the banking CEOs show that while speaking to them, she had written, “you need to designate the group as terrorists.”
On the same call, however, one banking executive warned about using Canada’s financial institutions for political means.
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