Records show an RCMP blacklist of bank account holders identified as part of the Freedom Convoy movement was sent by email to lobbyists, according to…
Conservative MP Adam Chambers , requested the information tabled in an Inquiry Of Ministry in the Commons.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
“That there were no instructions or guard rails provided to entities that received this information should concern people,” said Chambers. “Even the Privacy Commissioner has confirmed his office is investigating how information was handled.”tap here to see other videos from our teamThe inquiry said 79 individual and business account holders suspected of Freedom Convoy sympathies were compiled by the RCMP.
Cabinet earlier said 267 bank and credit union accounts and 170 bitcoin wallets were frozen under the Proceeds Of Crime And Terrorist Financing Act. The difference was unexplained but $7.8 million in accounts were frozen with Cabinet lifting the freeze on Feb. 23.We apologize, but this video has failed to load.Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Feb. 21 denied the RCMP widely distributed personal information on Freedom Convoy members.
“The RCMP has given to the financial institutions names of leaders and organizers of the protests and of people whose trucks were part of occupations and blockades,” said Freeland.“I suspect the government is embarrassed about how haphazard their approach was and are hoping we will all forget about it,” he said. “They are not interested in transparency and they don’t respect Parliament.
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