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Did Justin Trudeau’s Financial Crackdown Really Spark a Bank Run in Canada?
Five of Canada's largest banks mysteriously went offline this week after the government announced it was freezing assets of people supporting the Freedom Convoy, sparking rumors of a bank run or computer hacking.
by Jon Miltimore
February 20, 2022
in Government, Opinion, Politics
he announcement, however, may be having an unintended consequence. News reports say Canada’s banks mysteriously went offline following Freeland’s announcement.
“This week, five banks in Canada, the leading ones in the country, went offline out of the blue,” TechStory reported Thursday. “They faced a major outage of almost five hours blocking access to their primary functions. Online and mobile banking facilities were said to be out, along with access to e-transfer for the customers.”
Probably it was the banking establishments responding to a run on the banks.Hmmm that's interesting. I talked to a friend in Canada on Monday (?) and she actually mentioned she was blocked from any online banking and was worried about how she would pay bills if it continued. I honestly didn't even think much about it, I guess because it seemed like maybe it was just a thing with her specific bank. Hopefully it's all fixed, but that's kind of scary to think it happened.
A portion of my online banking was down Monday AM. It was a long weekend and the bank gave us ample notification they would be using the long weekend to take some applications down for maintenance and software updating. Telephone banking was not impacted but face to face banking in the branches was closed for the holiday. Honestly I can't imagine being so paranoid as to see evil at every turn. It's sad actually.Hmmm that's interesting. I talked to a friend in Canada on Monday (?) and she actually mentioned she was blocked from any online banking and was worried about how she would pay bills if it continued. I honestly didn't even think much about it, I guess because it seemed like maybe it was just a thing with her specific bank. Hopefully it's all fixed, but that's kind of scary to think it happened.
A portion of my online banking was down Monday AM. It was a long weekend and the bank gave us ample notification they would be using the long weekend to take some applications down for maintenance and software updating. Telephone banking was not impacted but face to face banking in the branches was closed for the holiday. Honestly I can't imagine being so paranoid as to see evil at every turn. It's sad actually.
Five of Canada's largest banks go offline at the same time. Is that paranoia or simply a statement of fact?A portion of my online banking was down Monday AM. It was a long weekend and the bank gave us ample notification they would be using the long weekend to take some applications down for maintenance and software updating. Telephone banking was not impacted but face to face banking in the branches was closed for the holiday. Honestly I can't imagine being so paranoid as to see evil at every turn. It's sad actually.
Monday was a holiday, not a national holiday but a holiday in many Provinces. Ontario is one Province that celebrates it as an Provincially mandated holiday.I just looked and it actually was Monday I spoke with her.
A statement of fact if they did...paranoia when you ascribe a motive.Five of Canada's largest banks go offline at the same time. Is that paranoia or simply a statement of fact?
Given that just days before the Emergencies Act was put in place and he announced the freezing of bank accounts, is it paranoia to think 5 banks going offline might be associated with that? I think it is very likely related to it.A statement of fact if they did...paranoia when you ascribe a motive.
Yup its paranoia.......Given that just days before the Emergencies Act was put in place and he announced the freezing of bank accounts, is it paranoia to think 5 banks going offline might be associated with that? I think it is very likely related to it.
The reports about of the offline issues was actually Wednesday last week not Monday.Yup its paranoia.......
To my knowledge, and I am an on line banker, no banks went off line prior to the announcement much less 5 of them.
The reports about of the offline issues was actually Wednesday last week not Monday.
Yeah they did that as most of our housing melts in the springTrudeau ended the emergency powers. Victory for the protesters. Banks freaked out as people pulled their money out of the banks reacting to the threat of freezing accounts.
The reports about of the offline issues was actually Wednesday last week not Monday.
Many Americans are not familiar with our system of Government, Charter, Constitution and laws.He's just living up to his word. "not one day longer than necessary" he said.
I realize that as a conservative you aren't used to people doing that, but that's what happened.