Because "Transparency"

As opaque as anything:

The Conservatives are demanding that the federal privacy watchdog investigate the Liberal government’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protestors. 

According to Blacklock’s Reporter, Conservative MP Adam Chambers wrote a letter to Privacy Commissioner Philipe Dufresne after a damning testimony by bank officials which indicated that the order might have violated the Privacy Act.

“Institutions received no instruction on how to properly store, keep or use the data received from the RCMP,” explained Chambers.

“There were no limits placed or instructions provided regarding how receiving institutions may use or rely on data received even after the Act’s use had expired.”

 

More:

Based on testimony from witnesses collected by the committee from Feb. 22 to March 17, Chambers said that “Receiving Institutions received no instruction on how to properly store, keep, or use the data received from the RCMP.”

“Receiving Institutions” describes financial institutions, including banks, credit unions, and cryptocurrency platforms, that were told to freeze the accounts of convoy supporters compiled on an RCMP list.

“There were no limits placed, or instruction provided, regarding how Receiving Institutions may use or rely on data received, even after the Act’s use has expired,” wrote Chambers.

“No instructions were provided on how long data was to be stored or a defined time period after which data should be destroyed,” and “there appear to have been no instruction or restriction on who or how many individuals within a Receiving Institution may have access to the data,” he added.

Along with these assertions, Chambers, who sits on the finance committee, relayed a number of outstanding questions he says the committee was unable to determine.

He wants to know how many Receiving Institutions were involved, how the information was transferred by the RCMP, and what information exactly was shared.

The MP representing Simcoe North (central Ontario) said he hopes the commissioner will conduct a review of the government’s actions and provide guidance in case a similar situation emerges in the future.

 

The object was never public safety but silencing a grassroots movement that swept the country and embarrassed the government, principally Justin.

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To be clear:

The Freedom Convoy inquiry yesterday moved a step closer to public hearings with recommended taxpayer funding for participants’ legal fees and expenses. Lawyers for convoy organizers did not ask for a subsidy: “Applicants who requested funding provided varying degrees of detail in terms of the amounts they requested.”

 

And:

Freedom Convoy coverage put “significant pressure” on CBC employees, according to corporate records. Cabinet earlier said it relied on CBC News for justification in using emergency powers against truckers, while one cabinet minister said he spoke personally with unnamed reporters covering the protest: “For journalists, trust me, I reached out to some of them.”

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Rubbish:

RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki warned the offices of top federal politicians not to share operationally sensitive details she was disclosing to them about a mass murderer’s weapons in a message she sent days before she pushed her subordinates to release that same information to the public.

Commissioner Lucki’s decision to urge the release of details about the guns used in the 2020 Nova Scotia massacre is at the centre of a political firestorm raising questions about whether she is sufficiently independent. New information about the commissioner’s dealings with top federal politicians is laid out in an e-mail from April 23, 2020.

This correspondence from Commissioner Lucki was sent to then-public safety minister Bill Blair’s office after a gunman killed 22 people during Canada’s worst mass shooting. There were plans for a top-level briefing of political officials in Ottawa and Commissioner Lucki relayed precisely what the RCMP knew about the specific firearms and ammunition used in the attacks.

But in that e-mail, she also stressed that this information about the weapons could only be circulated to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mr. Blair, given how detectives in Nova Scotia were still piecing together the trail of the weapons, and how many of them had been smuggled across the Canada-U.S. border.

“Please do not disseminate further,” Commissioner Lucki said in an e-mail to Zita Astravas, Mr. Blair’s chief of staff. “Do not share this information past the Minister and the PM as it is directly related to this active investigation.”

 

Yes, about that:

In those notes, Campbell wrote that RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki was upset that the RCMP in Nova Scotia were not revealing more information about the weapons used because she had promised the federal government — which was considering gun control legislation at the time — that they would raise it.

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