List of dates and restrictions being dropped in each Canadian province.
British Columbia has zero dates of any restrictions being lifted. Zero
Trucker Freedom Convoy Money Came From Widespread Public Support, Not “Terrorism Funding”
In a testimony before the House of Commons finance committee, the deputy director of Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (FINTRAC), the national financial intelligence agency of Canada, said the freedom convoy funding did not come from “terrorism” funding or “money laundering,” despite the federal government’s previous use of anti-terrorism tools against supporters of the protest movement.
“It was their own money,” Barry MacKillop testified. “It wasn’t cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering.”
“There were people around the world who were fed up with COVID and were upset and saw the demonstrations […] I believe they just wanted to support the cause,” he said.
On February 15, the Trudeau government froze the account of many Canadians who donated to the freedom convoy, evoking the Proceeds Of Crime And Terrorist Financing Act, a law passed after the September 2001 attacks in the United States.
The Trudeau government also invoked the Emergencies Act to mandate federal reporting of the donations made through