Wed Nov 30, 2022 – 5:01 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — During a roundtable discussion at the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) on Monday, a panel member tasked with advising government officials agreed it was “efficacious” and “even justified” for banks to freeze the assets of Freedom Convoy demonstrators for protesting government COVID measures.
During a discussion at the Financial Governance, Policing, and Intelligence roundtable – which is part of the POEC’s followup to the public inquiry into Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s use of the Emergencies Act (EA) – panel moderator Patrick Leblond asked advisors if it was “acceptable” for the government to freeze the assets of certain citizens participating in the protest.
“In times of crisis, traditional rules of procedural fairness can be modified. We have to accept that we can’t always have [a] gold-plated process going on here. So, in that sense… I’m not completely opposed to it,” answered one of the panelist, Dr. Gerard Kennedy, a law professor at the University of Manitoba.
Here was the answer, for anyone who’s interested #Chinada https://t.co/W5tC0c1FCI pic.twitter.com/8MzNTf504u
— Viva Frei (@thevivafrei) November 28, 2022
While seeming to support the Trudeau government’s decision
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