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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A main organizer of the "Freedom Convoy" is suing the federal government for using the Emergencies Act to freeze his bank accounts, arguing it breached his Charter rights to protest COVID-19 mandates.
Barber and Tamara Lich, who is from Medicine Hat, Alta., spearheaded protests in opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates that gridlocked downtown Ottawa and key border points in 2022.
He specifically cited a federal failure to require that "some objective standard be satisfied" before bank accounts were frozen, concluding it breached the Charter prohibition against unreasonable search or seizure.
He also "suffered and experienced fear and anxiety due to the anticipated loss of income," because his salary, wage, and business revenue payments were going to the frozen accounts, it says.
It alleges the federal government froze bank accounts for the "improper purpose of dissuading and punishing" protesters for exercising fundamental Charter rights.
Mizu, who lives in a rural municipality south of Saskatoon, previously worked as a branch manager for a financial services company, says the document.
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