Trudeau Must Go: Canada Freezes Bank Accounts of Trucker Donors

CLAY: Buck, the craziness in Canada, I feel like we have to unpack. For a long time, people in America would look to Canada and they would think to themselves, “Why can’t we be more like Canada,” right? Relatively calm. There are people — politically, anyway. Never really seemed like the temperature got that high, never really seemed like they got that fired up at each other. There was just kind of a moderate normalcy.

Everything, “Okay, eh?” that would come from Canada. I remember hearing the analogy somebody made America was trying to make meth in an apartment and the Canadians who lived above us were like, ‘What’s going on downstairs?’ all the time. Right? If you’ve ever lived in an apartment or a condo and had a crazy lower level or upper-level neighbor, you know how that can be. Canada was the calm ones. They were in bed, early hours.

They were easygoing. You never really paid much attention to ’em, and I don’t think we can understate how crazy Canada is right now. Buck, I just saw Ottawa put out — the City of Ottawa did — a statement letting it be known that if you were with the protesters and you had an animal and you were arrested, after eight days you would relinquish possession of your animal, and it would be either taken by someone else or on the pathway towards that animal being anesthetized, right?

BUCK: Euthanized.

CLAY: Euthanized. That is pretty crazy that we would be talking about that — and while we were on the air, we have now one of the top officials in Canada officially announcing that if you donated money to the Canadian truckers, they have begun the process of freezing the bank accounts, the bank accounts of people who made those donations.

Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland: “The names of both individuals and entities as well as crypto wallets have been shared by the RCMP with financial institutions and accounts have been frozen and more accounts will be frozen.” pic.twitter.com/iA69DbRJl1

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BUCK: Can I just say, Clay, ’cause I work in some domestic counterterrorism operations as well as before that in the CIA, obviously. Terrorism finance is something that the U.S. Treasury department, the intel community looks at. They’re effectively, in Canada, treating the truckers as a domestic terror organization — and, in fact, if anything, they’re being even more aggressive than we would in this country in dealing with insurgencies and terrorism abroad when it comes to that. They’re not even taking this to a court.

There’s no court order! They’re freezing accounts that they think might have donated money to truckers. On what basis? Are all the truckers breaking laws? What laws are they breaking? Is it terrorism they’re engaged in or protest? The fact that the media in this country does not get up in arms about this proves beyond any doubt — as if there was any doubt — these people are toadies in power. They don’t care about freedom, free speech, or protest.

CLAY: Yes, and you talked about — and we talked about on this program — if you’re saying, “Okay, I don’t really care what’s going on about the Canadian truckers right now.” First of all, I think you should care. Let’s start there.

BUCK: I think this whole audience does care, to be fair.

CLAY: I hope that they do. But every now and then, Buck, when we talk about something international I’ll get an email or something that will be like, “You should talk about what’s going on in America as well.” Okay, I understand that. But what goes on in the world also impacts America in a big way, right? So the Canadian truckers, you should care. If you don’t, you should. Listen to me in this analogy, and I think you’ll understand it.

It’s one of the analogies we’re making. Imagine during the summer of 2020 when all of those “mostly peaceful protesters” (said, obviously, sarcastically) are burning down police precincts, they’re rioting, they’re looting, they’re pillaging all over this country, happening everywhere, imagine if Donald Trump had said — as Kamala Harris, remember, now, our vice president, then the senator from California said — “Hey, we’re gonna raise money to immediately bail everybody out who was arrested during the BLM protests.”

Imagine if Donald Trump — and Mr. GoFundMes like crazy. They ended up raising over $100 million. They don’t know where that money went, by the way. But they did raise over $100 million. Imagine if Donald Trump had said, “We’re expanding our definition of terrorism. I’m declaring martial law, and every single person who donated money to Black Lives Matter is going to be in danger of having their bank accounts shut down.”

Imagine what the media in the United States would have said and done. That’s what’s happening right now in Canada, and most people in Canada are acquiescing to it, and most media in America aren’t even paying attention to this — and this is why precedents matter, because imagine if Trump had done the same.

BUCK: Clay, we could even expand a little more. If you had — the analogy is very apt, but if you had — Russia. “Russia Putin,” right? We’re all supposed to be so scared, and, by the way. There’s been some artillery shelling in areas on the Ukraine-Russia border and now they’re talking about a possible… We’re following this closely, folks. I mean, they’re talking about possible Putin chemical weapon threat, false flag in the Daily Mail. Just the reporting is all conflicting, it’s all a mess.

CLAY: No doubt.

BUCK: We’re watching this. But imagine for a moment the international media as well as the American media’s response if… The most well-known critic of the Kremlin is Alexei Navalny in Russia.

CLAY: Yes.

BUCK: You might have heard of him before, folks. Imagine for a moment if the Russian opposition Putin announced that I’m freezing all bank accounts of anyone who donates to any political party. Now, has Putin already done that or something? Probably.

CLAY: (laughing)

BUCK: But they would all say that is tyranny.

CLAY: Universally condemn it.

BUCK: And they would be correct. What they’re doing in Canada is tyranny, folks. That’s not an overstatement. It’s not. They are strangling democracy while pretending to protect it. That’s what’s happening right now in Canada. Trudeau has got to go. This is now an issue for the entire Western world. Trudeau’s government must fall. These truckers are striking a huge blow for freedom. They just need to hold the line.

CLAY: Make no mistake, by the way. Joe Biden would like to be able to do this.

BUCK: Mmm-hmm.

CLAY: Left wingers in this country would like to enable the president to be able to do this for donations that are made to protests that they don’t support.

BUCK: It’s so funny you bring that up, Clay, because there was just an announcement. The FBI is forming a National Cryptocurrency Unit focused on the seizure of assets like Bitcoin. That just broke while we were on air. Almost like they want to make sure they could cut off funds they don’t like in this country, too.

CLAY: No doubt. They’re not gonna let you hide funds.