"Alberta Premier says Trudeau’s freezing of bank accounts sets 'very disturbing precedent'"

"Alberta Premier Jason Kenney blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for allowing the seizure of people’s bank accounts, which is now happening due to the activation of the Emergencies Act.

'Using, for the first time ever, these extraordinary powers creates a very disturbing precedent,' said Kenney in a Twitter video yesterday.

'For the prime minister now and his government to be able to arbitrarily freeze people’s bank accounts, possibly based on the opinions that they have stated or donations that they have made, and without having to go to a judge, to court to get an order, this is outside of our democratic norms, and it’s disproportionate.'

Kenney was one the first premiers in Canada to denounce Trudeau’s unprecedented step of enacting the Emergencies Act, which happened Monday. Trudeau claimed this was needed to deal with the truckers from the Freedom Convoy.  

Trudeau’s new powers allow the government to freeze anyone’s bank accounts associated with the convoy without a court order. And the government has already begun to freeze accounts.

Seven Canadian provinces, including Alberta, now oppose an Emergencies Act declaration made Monday by Trudeau.

Kenney said that he urges 'folks involved in the blockade in Ottawa to move on and to continue their protests in legal ways,' but that he agrees with 'lot of those points' truckers have made, such as 'opposing the federal trucker vaccine mandate.'"