Banks suggested wording for Liberal government statement to enable withholding of Freedom Convoy funds
The plot to craft messaging to enable banks to deny the use of the funds to the weeks-long anti-mandate Freedom Convoy was revealed in a text message exchange submitted as evidence to the Public Order Emergency Commission.
An unnamed financial institution wanted "non-direction direction" from the PMO, in the form of a proposed statement indicating that turning over millions in GiveSendGo funding raised by last February's Freedom Convoy protest violated money-laundering laws.
Supporters donated over $12.36 million to the weeks-long anti-mandate street protest before the distribution of the money was frozen by the Liberal government.
The plot to craft messaging to enable banks to deny the use of the funds to the weeks-long anti-mandate Freedom Convoy was revealed in a text message exchange submitted as evidence to the Public Order Emergency Commission.
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The communications are between Tyler Meredith, policy advisor in the PMO and Alex Lawrence, director of communications for Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland, the minister quarterbacking the asset and funds seizures of convoy supporters and participants.
1/2 Government did NOT tell the truth about financial support of the Truckers Convoy
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“Our records show 88% of donated funds originated in Canada and 86% of donors were from Canada”
Juan Benitez, president of GoFundMe
Testimony, Commons Finance Committee
For our awareness, here's what one of the Fls has suggested as wording we might want to use in a statement. That they would all find helpful:
"It would violate Canadian anti-money laundering law to facilitate the transfer of funds that do not have a known source. GoSendMe does not reveal the sources of the funds that they are allowing to be collected on their platform for the trucker convoy. It would therefore be a violation of Canadian AML laws for any financial institution to facilitate the transfer of these funds within Canada!"
RCMP Director of Financial Crime Denis Beaudoin says there was no evidence of terrorist activity in donations to the freedom convoy.
— True North (@TrueNorthCentre) March 17, 2022
FINTRAC, GoFundMe and GiveSendGo have also disputed Trudeau's claims that the convoy was funded by terrorists and foreign powers. #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/otuOHvPNIQ
The Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) examined the government's invocation of the Emergencies Act, a never-before-used counter-terrorism law that was used to end the peaceful protests in Ottawa by utilizing extraordinary policing powers.
- By Ezra Levant
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