Feds Emailed Blacklist of Freedom Convoy Supporters to Foreign Banks: Inquiry of Ministry

Trucks participating in a cross-country convoy protesting Canada's COVID-19 vaccine mandates, dubbed Freedom Convoy 2022, are parked on Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Jan. 28, 2022. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press

A federal blacklist of over 200 trucking companies that employed individuals supportive of the Freedom Convoy was emailed from a federal department to Canadian officers of a number of foreign banks, one of which was headquartered in Beijing, records show.

In a response to a question by Conservative MP Arnold Viersen, the Public Safety Department wrote in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled in the House of Commons that Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office distributed a blacklist to the RCMP naming 201 trucking companies, according to Blacklock’s Reporter.