Trudeau deputy prime minister: “We are broadening the scope of Canada’s anti money laundering laundering and terrorist financing rules so that they cover crowd funding platforms” pic.twitter.com/chMa1iaWCt

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 14, 2022

Not to be outdone, GoFundMe tried to redistribute $10,000,000 of frozen donations, and got hammered with promises of fraud lawsuits/investigations by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and TX Attorney General Ken Paxton before it relented. As RedState’s Thomas LaDuke wrote: 

Canada has officially slipped into the abyss of countries that claim to want to care for and protect their citizens, by arresting them on charges that sound like they were read off a Chinese fortune cookie. Yet how they treat those citizens is anything but caring — more like a temper tantrum by a child 

This is all being done under the Canadian Emergency Powers Act, which gives the tinhorn dictator extraordinary powers to do what he is doing and charge people with counseling those to commit mischief. They can be held for up to two weeks with no bail hearing, and they will have to sit and think about how bad it is to commit mischief that the thin-skinned Trudeau does not find acceptable.