PETITIONS
Hold governments accountable
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Bill C-2 criminalizes cash payments of $10,000 or more. Today, it’s $10,000. Tomorrow, it could be $5,000 or $1,000, then $0.
Bill C-2 is part of a trend. Quebec’s Bill 54 now empowers police officers to assume that people carrying $2,000 or more in cash are connected to illegal activities and to seize the cash.
Cash is under attack in Canada.
When cash is criminalized, governments, banks, and law enforcement can track and interfere with legitimate purchases and donations.
Cash protects Canadians’ privacy, autonomy, and freedom of expression. Cash means freedom from surveillance: by government, by banks, by credit card companies, and by other businesses.
We, the undersigned, call upon the Prime Minister of Canada to strike the criminalization of cash payments from Bill C-2.
We, the undersigned, call upon the Prime Minister of Canada to introduce legislation that protects Canadians’ right to use cash of any amount for legal transactions.
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