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by unsupp0rted 91 days ago
Just don't back those organizations too publicly or too loudly if you don't want your bank account summarily frozen
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Do you have a source of people’s bank being frozen for backing those orgs?
"I'll grant that dozens were imprisoned for protesting on a Tuesday, but do you have a source proving that anybody was imprisoned for protesting on a Wednesday?"
So no?
The government has demonstrated it is perfectly willing to forcibly remove non-violent protesters and unbank anyone protest-adjacent when they don't conveniently go away. Local councillors have orchestrated firing people for voicing their opposition towards the genocide in Gaza [1]. I for one don't understand the goodwill and benefit of doubt a lot of Canadians still seem to exhibit towards the government.

[1] https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-region-paramedic...

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