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February 14, 2022Law & sovereign policyEnforcement actionsdocumented

Canada freezes protest-linked accounts under emergency powers

Invoking the Emergencies Act, the government directed banks to freeze accounts tied to the trucker convoy, and named crypto addresses.

The order required financial institutions to stop servicing designated persons without a court order, and an RCMP list circulated to exchanges included bitcoin addresses. A federal court later found the invocation unreasonable and unconstitutional.