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Canada PM revokes Emergencies Act: 'Existing laws and bylaws are now sufficient'
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[NationalPost] Critics and opposition leaders have criticized the measures, particularly those meant to target money and bank accounts allegedly connected to convoy organizers and supporters
Just a day after MPs approved it and potentially hours before being put to vote in the Senate, emergency measures invoked by the Trudeau Liberals last week have been revoked...Even with the occupations ended, the prime minister said the situation was far from over.
"This issue won't just go away," he said, announcing that a parliamentary review of the government's decision to invoke the act would be struck within 60 days.
"We need to constantly work to defend and improve our democracy at home and around the world."
Under Sec. 62 of the Emergencies Act such reviews are mandatory and, according to the legislation, held in private...Section 63 also gives the Governor General the authority to order an inquiry into the circumstances that prompted the invocation of the order and measures taken during the emergency...The Act, which requires passage in both Houses of government, passed muster in the House of Commons on Tuesday in a 185 to 151 vote...As news broke in the Red Chamber that the prime minister was set to revoke the Act, Senators shrugged and went on with their debates...Earlier in the day, some senators said they were still "torn" in choosing how to vote on the extension of the Emergencies Act and it was unclear if the Senate would vote it down....Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu suggested on Twitter the prime minister decided to revoke the act instead of risking it being voted down by the Senate.
"The Prime Minister knew the Senate would not support him. He chose to back down rather than to admit defeat," wrote Boisvenu in French.
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The vote in the Senate was set to happen after the end of the debates, either Wednesday night or Thursday.
RCMP working to ‘unfreeze’ protesters’ bank accounts, Ottawa says
[TheStar] The RCMP began “sharing information” — related to the end of “unlawful” blockades — with banks and financial institutions as of Monday.
The federal government says the RCMP are working with financial institutions to "unfreeze" bank accounts locked by emergency orders that targeted people who organized, participated in, or donated to the so-called Freedom Convoy blockades.
Isabelle Jacques, assistant deputy minister of finance, told a Commons standing committee Tuesday that the RCMP began "sharing information" — related to the end of "unlawful" blockades — with banks and financial institutions as of Monday that should lead to affected accounts being "unfrozen."
However,
there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly...
Jacques said some bank account holders may still be subject to other court orders freezing their assets.
The province of Ontario won an order on Feb. 10 that froze the distribution of funds raised through the American online funding platform, GiveSendGo. And on Feb. 17 a group of Ottawa citizens, businesses, and employees who are suing key organizers of the so-called Freedom Convoy 2022 won a sweeping order to preserve their ability to recover damages.
The class action lawsuit has not yet been certified by a court, but it targets the accounts of individuals, specifically Patrick King, Tamara Lich, Christopher Garrah, Nicholas St. Louis and Benjamin Dichter — all key players in the protests — as well as the corporation "Freedom Convoy 2022 Human Rights and Freedoms" that lawyer Paul Champ said was set up Jan. 30 to collect nearly $11 million that was raised on GiveSendGo. The protesters occupied downtown Ottawa for 24 days after demanding a lifting of Canada’s pandemic restrictions. Police finally broke up the protest on the weekend. Blockades at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor and the border crossing in Coutts, Alta. were removed last week.
The Department of Finance officials said the emergency order issued by the Trudeau government led to between 206 to 210 accounts being frozen, totalling some $7.8 million. 
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