<story><title>Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-day-18-in-ottawa-noon-deadline-in-mayors-deal-with-convoy-pm-talking-to-premiers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackim</author><text>That is an exaggerated headline. Accounts being used to fund illegal activities can be frozen. Protesting is not and will not be illegal. Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal.</text></item><item><author>makomk</author><text>Headline on the front page of BBC News right now: &amp;quot;Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters&amp;#x27; bank accounts&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This feels downright dystopian, especially if the move away from cash and towards centrally-controlled electronic payment systems is anywhere near as widespread in Canada as elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>daenz</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s like saying civil forfeiture is ok because the police will only ever take things from people involved with actual crimes, and that if you&amp;#x27;re not doing crime you have nothing to worry about. Do you forget how things are manipulated by people with power?</text></comment>
<story><title>Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act</title><url>https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/truck-convoy-day-18-in-ottawa-noon-deadline-in-mayors-deal-with-convoy-pm-talking-to-premiers</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Jackim</author><text>That is an exaggerated headline. Accounts being used to fund illegal activities can be frozen. Protesting is not and will not be illegal. Blocking critical infrastructure is illegal.</text></item><item><author>makomk</author><text>Headline on the front page of BBC News right now: &amp;quot;Trudeau vows to freeze anti-mandate protesters&amp;#x27; bank accounts&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.bbc.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;world-us-canada-60383385&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This feels downright dystopian, especially if the move away from cash and towards centrally-controlled electronic payment systems is anywhere near as widespread in Canada as elsewhere.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>slibhb</author><text>We have a word for &amp;quot;blocking infrastructure&amp;quot; as a form of protest: civil disobedience.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m sympathetic to (some) of the aims of the protesters but I think they&amp;#x27;ve made their point and should go home. Still, this move by Trudeau seems like an overreaction considering there&amp;#x27;s been little&amp;#x2F;no violence.</text></comment>