Three top Finance Canada officials — deputy minister Michael Sabia and assistant deputy ministers Isabelle Jacques and Rhys Mendes — were grilled by Public Order Emergency Commission counsel Gordon Cameron on Thursday about the federal government’s controversial use of the Emergencies Act to freeze key Freedom Convoy participants’ financial accounts during last winter’s protest against pandemic restrictions.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.
Cameron put to her that she or her department must have realized there would be wider effects, including on family members with whom they may share a bank account but who had nothing to do with the protests. But those were cast aside because they either did not apply or required time-consuming legislative changes.U.S., other countries very concerned about convoy protests, diplomats testify
Sabia described how the Freedom Convoy protests and blockades occurred at a crucial time for the Canadian economy as well as for the U.S.-Canada trade relationship.Article content
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