Canada's Freedom Convoy crackdown wasn't the worst.

(RT) ⸻ The final report on the Canadian government's use of the Emergencies Act amid last year's country-wide trucker protests against Covid-19 vaccine mandates is in, and it's largely a roadmap for greater government control. Former Canadian Liberal Party top advisor turned justice, Paul Rouleau, has issued the Public Order Emergency Commission's report, which concludes that the government was justified in using the measure, which included the ability to block bank accounts of not just the protesters but also those who donated to them. The head of the Canadian Security and Intelligence Services (CSIS), David Vigneault, underscored during the inquiry that he didn't consider the Freedom Convoy to be a threat, but Rouleau insists that the protests were "unlawful". The asset-freezing regime had two main purposes: discouraging people from remaining at the site of unlawful protests and preventing further financial support from reaching convoy protests. The Rouleau report concluded that the asset freeze was a reasonable measure to prevent any funds from supporting the illegal protests, and praised the "overall effectiveness" of the "powerful tool" in "bringing the emergency to a safe and speedy resolution". However, the report's focus on "disinformation" as a contributing factor to the protests risks opening the door to greater control and censorship of both online and traditional media in favor of establishment narratives. CSIS Director Vigneault also told the inquiry that there were no foreign actors engaged in funding the protests, running contrary to suggestions in the Canadian state-backed press that Russia could be behind the movement. Rouleau's implication that the establishment was the voice of truth and science during the pandemic and that contradictory information could only be fake news risks encouraging more of the same.