By Baxter
The Trumpy trucker border demonstration at the Manitoba-US line is about to collapse, but we expect that the end of the Ottawa occupation will come with a whimper.
That said, today's resignation of the Ottawa chief of police was a small bang. And a necessary one. He was the wrong man for the moment, and never should have allowed the insurrectionists' to entrench themselves. The damn thing should have been over the minute a Trumpster climbed up and stood on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
But what's really going to end all this is the tight stranglehold of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is also Minister of Finance. Thanks to the invocation of the Emergencies Act, Freeland is:
- Freezing the corporate accounts of truckers participating in the Ottawa occupation
- Suspending their insurance
- Allowing banks to freeze their personal accounts and requiring them to share information on suspicious transfers with the RCMP and Canadian intelligence services
- Requiring all crowdfunding platforms to register with the anti-money-laundering Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC), to track and halt funding of illegal blockades
Already on social media last night, there was evidence that Freeland's financial squeezing was having an effect. It's not going to be sudden and dramatic, but soon, this long national nightmare will be over. Which will make us cats PURR.
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