A Conservative MP is asking the privacy commissioner to review events surrounding the freezing of financial accounts of Freedom Convoy supporters during the public order emergency declared by the government in February.
MP Adam Chambers wrote to commissioner Philippe Dufresne on July 6 to highlight that a study on the issue done by the House of Commons finance committee raised some questions.
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….