The Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) is currently looking into three files pertaining to the Trudeau government invoking the Emergencies Act last winter, including the order telling financial institutions to send information on “designated persons” to security agencies.
The Office provided this information in a Jan. 24 brief submitted to the Special Joint Committee on the Declaration of Emergency (DEDC), a body of MPs and senators established according to legislation to examine the government’s invocation of the Emergencies Act.
The act was invoked on Feb. 14 last year to deal with cross-country protests and border blockades demanding the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions….