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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.

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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.