Comment by coevcan | Hacker News Reader

Comment by coevcan | Hacker News Reader

I don't know why anyone would trust the Liberal government with a payment system, after they went rogue and froze about 200 bank accounts without court orders during the convey protests using the emergencies act which has since been deemed illegal.

> Using powers granted under the Emergencies Act, the federal government has directed banks and other financial institutions to stop doing business with people associated with the anti-vaccine mandate convoy occupying the nation's capital.

> ... financial institutions are required to monitor and halt all transactions that funnel money to demonstrators — a measure designed to cut off funding to a well-financed protest ...

If you think they wouldnt abuse this, good luck to you.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergencies-act-banks-ottaw...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/emergency-bank-measures-fin...

https://reclaimthenet.org/court-rules-trudeau-freezing-civil...

With or without this new payment system, they can order the banks to freeze your account or block transactions (as your example shows they were able to do before this payment system was rolled out).

While it may have been since deemed illegal, they found a few of those trucks to be armed to brim with munitions. It was strong reaction to try and prevent a violent insurrection on Parliament Hill, which was still fresh on many Canadians minds from Jan 6.

> why anyone would trust the Liberal government ... after they ... froze about 200 bank accounts ... during the convey protests

Wasn't that almost 5 years ago - was it the same government? Is there reason to believe it's the Liberals and not the prime minister at the time, or that the Conservatives would be different?

You're conveniently leaving out that the PEO report found they were justified in using the emergency powers act since it was a complete failure of the local and provincial police to act, so they had to do something.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poec-report-released-friday...

So hey, maybe we should trust the government (who does all federal payment systems) with a new federal payment system.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com