The painful irony of this is that most politicians have extraordinary amounts of wealth that seems to have come to them though flimsy or dubious channels.
@@MonkeyJedi99 We could solve homelessness by getting rid of property taxes on at least one building. As in letting each person not have to pay property taxes on one property they own. It would widely benefit homeowners, and lower rent to renters.
Except there are a relatively small number of politicians. Still too many for other reasons, to be sure, but not enough to have much of a financial impact.
This kind of thing has hurt a lot of people. I saw a video awhile ago where this man did not like banks, and was traveling cross country with just over 100,000 dollars. Cops pulled him over because he was doing the speed limit...which they deemed suspicious. 🙈 He allowed them to search his car...they found his money, and despite having already been stopped and searched before, he had paperwork from another officer in a different state saying he'd been cleared. They took his money with 0 evidence of a crime. He was left without money to finish his trip and had to call friends and family for gas money. Guy lost his life savings while minding his own business. Never treat authorities like they're your friend. Don't answer questions, don't talk to them. If you've committed no crimes, then they can pound sand.
@@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 I see your point, but it would also depend on how its configured. if you were to use say a single direction slot similar to the screws that Ive seen used at rest stop bathrooms where it only has flats for tightening and its ramped on the loosing side to turn a key in the ignition, then no amount of attempts to reverse the direction of the key would work to turn it off unless physical access was made. And there is the possibility to still use an electronic starter like remote start, with a fuse before the controller that is then intentionally blown to prevent the remote start unit from being able to actuate its shutdown function
There’s a video on The Undercurrent channel where GOP Rep Mo Brooks explains behind closed doors (via hidden camera) how committee assignments have a price and there’s a clear quid pro quo with donors. It may be something most of us know, but hearing him explain it makes it clear how utterly corrupt our government is. Meanwhile lawmakers have people convinced that businesses and campaign financing should be less regulated, furthering the corruption.
The Obama's went in the white house with about $1m net worth, left 8 years later with a net worth of $40m. This on an annual gross salary of $400k. And now they are worth $70m. Nothing to see here, move on!
I live in B.C. Canada. Money laundering was done primarily in casinos. People used a lot of cash to buy chips and sit at the big tables(usually Poker). They play sort of casually then after maybe 30 minutes their cel phone rings. The Launderer looks at the phone, gets a wrinkle on their face and all of a sudden declares that they have to leave right away. They tip the dealer( don't b cheap here) and take their stash of chips to the cashier. They get a cheque for their chips and go to the bank. Good money for bad. To my knowledge they r still doing this.
Only in BC lottery corp casinos. Yes it does work. I used to dump large amounts and clean money full time job. Government are evil. They also bring in fentanyl and other drugs. Yes they do
In Singapore, this applies to wealth possessed by government officials. Any official who has more wealth than they can explain is assumed to be taking bribes.
How incredibly refreshing. Would welcome that idea taking hold in the USA, where people of humble origins become unbelievably wealthy during their stints as "public servants".
not surprising, that nation works, and every time we check, it works as obviously ever other country should. they banned racism, not by attacking one side, but by attacking everyone who did anything even remotely racist, and surprise, racism is not an issue in country with white, asian and many mixed population, not even the small but existing muslim population do their usual acts, since they would be deported of prisoned for it immediately.
And so they take their bribes in the form of favors, gifts, and events. Gifts to family members. I.e, you can use the yacht but it remains in my possession. Or your son gets a job at my company where they do nothing and get paid millions. This happens everywhere. Bribes are inevitable, the only solution is to pay politicians well and destroy them if they are blatant in their abuse, but there will always be bribes.
Remember on Gillian’s Island how Mr Howell had big steamer trunks of cash? If only the cops in Hawaii had known, they would have been rescued much quicker
That would be great. Kind of like the sheriff in Colorado that stood up to the BLM. They went into his office and requested his help in confiscating cattle from a rancher. He told them he would be there and if they did not have a court order signed by a judge, he would be backing the rancher.
What an awful thing to realize your personal property or money can be seized essentially without recourse merely because an "official" *thinks* it may be suspect. No rights, no trial, no evidence, not even probable cause, and it is taken without cause or recourse. Utterly horrendous.
As I understand what Steve has said here, they don't even have to think it's suspect. They simply ask the person for an explanation of the wealth and if that person refuses to engage, the person is "guilty."
@@mikepalmer1971 some of them probably, not nearly as many as the people in the US singing their praises of the US, call and get the best country on the planet and to ever exist. We have civil asset forfeiture, it's the same kind of robbery, except here, you can have a give the police a valid reason that you have the cash and they'll still seize it and make you sue them to get it back.
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” - John Adams It is far worse in the US. Where in the present generations of Americans are the Adams, Jeffersons and Franklins? No one to lead the fight against tyranny?
Half of Philadelphia’s police and district attorneys budget came from civil forfeiture at one point. No way there could be any motivation for corruption.
Over half of Canadians work for the government and support either the Liberal NDP or Green partys, and that's not including Quebec which is even more socialist. Most of their wages are paid ine benefits, so cash is highly unusual to them, they wont give a fuck. We've also had debit cards for decades, and cash has never really been king here. It's no problem that we were named the first world tax haven, leading offshore holding state for US entities, no problem that Vancouver is a global human smuggling hub, the problem are gangs, that's competition, and Canadians dont like competition.
As a Canadian, This country has already gone down the drain and is 3/4 way to the settling tank. They want to try and take my legally owned guns? Nope, They want to take my home? Nope. This is the hill I die on.
I love how we are always told that the slippery slope argument is a fallacy, but then at the same time they are constantly pushing for expanding authority by adding onto existing laws, saying "well we already do something sorta similar so we should be able to take it a step farther and do this too".
I remember bringing up multiple examples of this in university when talking about Slippery Slope. it is a fallacy to call it a fallacy. That is how society operates.
Slippery slope is only a fallacy if there's no connecting point. The argument "if x then y" without justification is the fallacy, but when used properly it's merely "doing this will lead to that because the justification will be the same"
That's where your wrong dek. These laws ARE hitting their intended targets. Forget about who the politicians say it's aimed at and pay attention to who it's aimed at in practice.
Thanks for the info on Canada. Useless law in BC since a lot of the cash comes from Hong Kong. I am in Ontario and we usually only hear about wealth confiscation when a drug bust goes down. They typically take guns, cash, cars, houses as proceeds of crime. Where the proceeds go after confiscation is a grey area, they claim it goes to victims of crime. I have never seen an article about victims being compensated? Like all government events involving money it probably needs an audit.
No, it's not weird at all that you are afraid of the police in that circumstance. But it is a damn shame that our rights are not being respected by the current governments.
@waltersobchak1719 Because no one in their right mind would accept a cheque and bank drafts, etc have their own issues including forgery. You can use a bank instrument but it should include a trip to the bank to verify. I did that when I sold my car. But for a 5000 dollar purchase it may not be worth the hassle. I'd just use cash myself.
I'm a 53 yr old Canadian. For the last 20 years or so, since 9/11 i guess, I've been growing increasingly alarmed and dissappointed with my government. I don't understand from where it derives its powers. It's like a creeping fungus. I pity my children and grandchildren.
@@AKUJIVALDO You don't know me. I've fought for my country. I've fought for my family. When something I see is wrong, I have every right to complain about it. How about YOU stop judging me. I don't come to McDonald's and tell you how to flip burgers.
@@basildraws yes, yes, you fought for "your" country which is being pissed away by Turdeo gleefully, he and his violate Canada's people rights and you are silent.
An aspect of this that no one talks about is that very often the "undocumented wealth" the government is so worried about comes from drug sales the government has outlawed. The desire of the government to say "these gains are illegitimate, and we are therefore free to seize them any time we feel like it" is an incentive for government to define as much activity as possible as illegitimate, including dictating what one does with one's own body.
The same rule is why the Cartel formed in Mexico. Individuals were sick of Mexican political corruption that smaller politicians and military personnel decided to create their own militia to battle the government, originally. Now the cartel dabbles in drugs and executions, they still fight Mexico’s government, but not for the reason they first formed.
Imagine the money that could be made "legitimately" if things were just legalized and regulated, we could be teaching harm reduction on a much bigger scale and there wouldn't be anywhere near the amount of drug od.
@@dijosto Why should it be a goal of ours to see that the government collects as much money as possible? From what I've seen, they haven't done a very good job of spending the money they already have. It's a mistake to assume that the people making these predatory policies want to "reduce harm," prevent drug overdoses, or anything else besides stealing as much as they possibly can.
Just a thought: This may not be the pilot experiment. Remember, during the Canadian Trucker Convoy protest, the federal government seized bank accounts with questionable legal framework. Perhaps that incident was the pilot, and this is blessed and sanctioned sequela.
Actually, use of emergency powers during truck convoy is currently hotly discussed in the parliament (news are full of it), and couple of ministers and RCMP commissioner is under pressure.
@@dmitripogosian5084 It's not comforting to hear a few politicians are "under pressure" when rightfully the entire executive should have been immediately replaced for having clearly and obviously violated Canada's charter of rights and any reasonable interpretation of human rights. I no longer view Canada as a liberal democracy, it's a dictatorship attempting to legitimize itself with a veneer of legal process.
I can almost hear fellow Canadians packing their luggage. I’ve said it before, if a gov is not appreciating it’s citizens, they have a duty to relocate and pay taxes in a country that does.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, these laws will only change when someone gets killed. In specific, a law enforcement officer gets killed. I use the word killed, and not murdered, because they will be killed by someone who is defending their property from a strong armed robbery under the color of law. That’s when these laws will change.
@@GoingGoneGalt because the populace when they are really made aware are fundamentally against civil asset forfeiture. No one likes it except those in power. The publicity behind some officers getting killed behind this bullshit I think will be enough to start to shut these laws down from the political pressure to do so. The fundamental unfairness of it is not enough to shut it down like Steve said because it’s too damn lucrative. I would have to ask the police officer if that officer thought that it was worth losing his or her life over. I suspect most of them would say that it wasn’t. It’s strong arm robbery under the color of law. as long as those in power field that they can do it and get away with it without consequence of any kind they will continue to do it. There are bullies in law-enforcement. There are politicians that are fundamentally bullies. Bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.
You’re right these laws would change after multiple people gets killed, but it won’t change how you expect. Politicians will double down on the law which will pretty much arm police in military tactical gear to enforce the same law, if it gets bad enough they’ll up the law with much more criminal time to wear breaking said law becomes a felony with the max sentence of life in prison and then having the Nation Guard then supporting law enforcement enforcing said law. In today’s society you have to aim for the head of where all of this coming from, killing a few of the enforcers doesn’t do anything when they replaced with another to enforce the law but this time with better gear and backup.
I am Canadian and I can tell you that human rights infringement in Canada is flourishing and it has been an issue for many years, but it was masked by the Canadian government until recently. The cracks in their image are starting to show
@@jasonmajere2165 Now that's not nice. He wants to be called "Our dear leader." He felt "Our dear benevolent leader" was too much. On the way to being just like North Korea.
It’s going to get worse now that Canadians are actively being disarmed. In a few generations open violence on unruly Canadians will be accepted practice as is done in other disarmed regimes.
North American real estate has always been price-inflated by foreign wires and unusual fiat deposits that face minimal scrutiny. The law needs to fix banking. It’s truly the banks who facilitate “unexplained wealth.”
I don’t believe you. Everything electronic is traceable. That’s why you don’t hear complaints about bank account seizure like you do with tangible assets.
I think the banks as private entities are, and should be, disinterested. Unless they cross the line and knowingly and willingly facilitate illegal activity. There's plenty of wriggle room for them to not look though. We have had had huge fines when major banks put in place policies and processes to allow cash to be laundered simply by depositing through ATM machines, and bypassing cash transaction thresholds that must be reported. They can be arrogant.
Canada actually has an agency called Fintrac that tracks foreign money transfers. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of non-residents pumping up the RE markets in NA, but this law is about citizens and permanent residents who can buy homes without any visible means. If someone gets a transfer from a family in another country, it's easily tracked.
Got this video randomly recommended and Im just gonna say it's always fun to find random americans with a Finnish name. Just a fun thing to find Finnish heritage around the world, as a Finn myself. Oh and my condolences to all the Canadians that have to live in a dystopia
Ontario,Canada…My buddy took 3500$ out of bank had it in a envelope with the receipt from the bank. He was on his way to buy a car and got pulled over he has all “proper paperwork to drive” but they took his money! He fought it but Took him 6 months to get it back all for no reason other than he had 3500 in cash.
Just because you have a receipt from a bank that you withdraw cash from doesn't mean the cash isn't illicit. You would need to prove the source of the money when you first acquired it, BEFORE depositing it in the bank. If the deposit was the result of positive investment returns, then you would also need to prove where you got the money to make the investment that has paid out, and so on and so forth. This is why it's potentially so dangerous...If you invested $10k wisely thirty years ago, and recently sold the investment for $5 million, you would still need to prove where you got the $10k from.
In Canada all forfeitures have to have a hearing in court, so you do have the opportunity to demonstrate it is legitimate. If your friend had a legitimate receipt it would be returned. The people who have problems are the ones who can't show it was legitimate.
At first I thought this was more akin to IRS actions, but when you got to the point that they already have forfeiture laws that cover the standard cases, I understood how incredibly harmful this could be.
In Sweden, we have similar laws. It's written fairly broad but the rules and regulations disallows targeting people who are not criminals. It's in general used only on persons who declare no income and does it for years. You also need to have a sentence against you, or associate with people who are known for crimes that handle money in bigger scale. You may also get targeted for taxation for your wealth where your likely income is calculated and the result is normally 120 % tax on whatever you have in assets. But you really need to flash your cash to be targeted. I heard a story about a nurse who was riding her new e-bike around town. The police stopped her and asked if she had a receipt for it right there and then. Most certainly she didn't, who lugs around paperwork for every item you have with you? So they took the bike with her screaming, the police screaming and she had to take a day off work because she had to clear the mess. And the result, 3 days later she got her bike, an excuse from the commanding officer and $1700 for her trouble. What the police was ordered to do was seize expensive things from young men who couldn't afford to buy those thing. Not target working women who had bikes and phones.
@@atomanni-k5m Yes. They stop everyone and check for receipts or reasonable income. Wearing a $1000 jacket, the newest iPhone and a lot of gold when you don’t declare an income, not adding up. But taking a bike from a nurse is not the best move.
@@atomanni-k5m So the police should be able to seize anyone's property without probable cause and then you should sue them to get you stuff back? Wow, let's target the elderly and disable, those who are not likely to fight for their rights. How many do you know who have all receipts for every item you have on you at hand to show to the police?
This is one of those laws that will selectively be applied. Take anyone and ask them to explain where their lifelong accumulation of wealth comes from. Even banks don’t keep their records forever. So in fact each time this law will be used, the state will always win in court because it’s literally impossible for anyone to prove the provenance of all their wealth due to the fact that no one keeps records of all their revenue and all their receipts forever.
I am in my mid 60s and can go back 30 years. It is only the last 15 years that my income went to a level where I had enough to have a reasonable surplus. My National Insurance and pension contributions are a direct percentage of income so proof is there anyway. I do not see an issue.
@@mbak7801 The problem is that theoretically you can be home watching TV, someone knocks at your door and suddenly, it becomes your job to prove that you did nothing wrong. That’s the problem. If they think you did something wrong, it should be their job to prove that, not the other way around.
Totally agree. I only keep records for a few years for IRS taxing :p reasons. Other wise. i would have room full of documents etc.. Becomes not practical. Plus receipts and other thing fade over time. Some stuff can 't even be read anymore. If something like this applies. Tons of small business people will lose ton of money. Cause eventually you'll can't find the documents anymore.
When I was working with GM, we had a customer call in requesting money. He claimed he was driving his TransAm down the highway, when the rear hatch opened, and $50K in cash flew out. He had no receipt, or proof of the money, and could not explain why he had loose cash in the car. Needless to say, we declined his request.
I saw a lawyer type driving down the road (at least a few blocks) with open briefcase and cup of coffee. Was driving a school bus and the kids tried to get driver's attention. He flipped off the kids and accelerated at the green, with the expected result of his driving angry.
@@TheBooban nope. He also stated he saw the money blow out, but was too embarrassed to stop and pick it up. GM used to be called Generous Motors, because they gave away money or warranties for any reason.
When my wife's parents died we found out they were LOADED and their life style would have never let on how much they had. it was from 60+ years of investments and frugal spending. They could have lived in a better house, a better car in a better place but chose not to.
Well if they were happy, why not, most people that are rich, have decent but not expensive homes/cars/places to live. Cost less for the upkeep, and they didn't feel the need to show off to their peers.
This is the case for most wealthy people. That's how they got their money in the first place, they weren't wasteful and lived well within their means. The people you see living in the high-dollar subdivision with two upper-end cars are strung out on payments. You'd be surprised how many doctors are just getting by on their 6 figure salaries.
I believe that civil asset forfeiture is a plain language violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments. From the 4th: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, ..." and from the 5th: "... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
I'm in total agreement with you Steve. The way it should be is for the LE Agency to investigate and to build a case against an individual. Once the case is complete then it moves to the filing of an affidavit for a warrant with the DA. Then, if approved, the warrant(s) are executed and so on. Due Process must be given to every person within the U.S. If there is no Due Process, then the investigation itself is criminal.
I hope you want a Judge to sign off on the Warrant BEFORE it is executed....otherwise it is just a Subpoena, and we know how corrupt some DA's can be!! Yes Judges can also be Corrupt, but it is not as likely.
If the wealth comes from offshore sources where doing an investigation would be challenging or impossible (hostile or corrupt governments, war zones etc), then a UWO can have merit.
@@VC-Toronto There is no place for a UWO in the United States. If the cops and investigators cannot prove their case that someone obtained their money from a criminal source, then that person should not be subject to any punishment. That is how it should be. Otherwise, the taking of someone's money or possessions is defined as an armed robbery. The cops and investigators were armed... obvious threat of force with weapons.
This is why people have offshore bank accounts. I don't expect or feel the need to explain my wealth beyond saying '' I earned it ''. Put your money where they won't find it or at the very least make it extremely difficult for them to get their grubby little hands on it by keeping that money in a bank in a completely different country.
@@suzannakoizumi8605 Actually it is, also there are other methods such as safety deposit boxes or even storing your wealth in the form of gold or other high value goods. Some government official come's by your house and sees a few bars of metal lying on the shelf they probably won't think much of it. Checked the price of Rhodium lately? It's $465,000 per kg. Extremely easy to hide your money just by using your brain.
In Britain the government has to take you to court before they can confiscate anything, and the proceeds do not go a local agent, but go into the central government coffers. This is very different to Civil Asset Forfeiter in the US, where any local government agent can simply grab your cash at the side of the road.
I was going to say something similar. I know that Britain has used this power once, not sure that it is more than that. In terms of paper trail - it isn't going to be down to the penny - but UK inheritance tax records plus income tax records plus land registry information will (for most people) get the right ballpark for current wealth. The American situation seems unjust - tourists are particularly (I would have thought) at risk. Is it an insurable risk? Can't judge the Canadian situation without more detail.
Yes in the UK, debt collection is sometimes filmed for reality TV shows, but they can only collect a debt after the courts have issued a collection order. And yes if the police find you with more than £10,000 in cash upon you they can confiscated it, and you have to show that you have good reasons to have that much cash. But as long as you can show good reason, then the police have to return it to you, you don’t have to sue them to get your money back. The big difference between the US and the UK, Europe, and the majority of the Anglospear
Is that given how advanced the banking system is, there are very few reasons to pay with cash even on private deals, and the majority of business will not take more than £5,000 in cash for any payment. The days of paying for something with wads of readies is long gone, and very much something from the past. Even banks do not like you trying to pay in large amounts of cash, in fact cash is steadily going out of fashion.
It's everywher, Steve. Here in the UK I am buying a house. It's not a big house or luxurious. I am paying cash, they want to know where I got the money. When I told them, the lawyers wanted to know where that person got it. Luckily they had a paper trail showing they legally are entitled to what they have. It's supposed to prevent money laundering. It would seem to me that major criminal gangs would not be laundering cash using a little 2 bed bungalow in a remore corner of Wales. Go figure.
But major criminal gangs use a lot of that money to make sure they never get asked what you did. And they are major criminal gangs so if the money doesn't work they have other ways to stop the questions. You and the prior owner don' have that kind of clout so you make their job risk free light work, they can grill you without consequence.
A small remote bungalow would make an excellent base of operations for a criminal group. I don't think you've thought this through as much as the banks have. Just remember, a banker can think like a criminal because they aren't much different.
Encouraging exceptions to laws seems rather dumb though. If I go to the bank and I forgot my identification then sure, I can be annoyed by that, but on the other hand it's that same system that keeps things a bit more secure for everyone.
In Thailand this concept of unexplained wealth is frequently used to seize funds and property. This usually is used against politicians or government employees, but recent seizures of civilians has occurred.
My country of Canada is the only place I know where students & homemakers who declare an income of only $20,000 a year often own houses in Vancouver valued at $3+ million. The underground economy of untaxed income is very much alive and well. The rampant gangland lifestyle here also often has 20 year old kids with no jobs driving $100,000 cars. Yet few people do much about this.
"Hong Couver". Lots and lots of Chinese cash-- crazy stuff. TO is Chinese families who've supported the community for decades. It's more of a west coast issue centered in Vancouver sadly and rife with HongKong crime syndicates
Dude. I think I remember a video on this channel where this was used in California against the owner of a LEGAL Marijuana store. Cops would stop the armored truck on the way to the bank and seize the cash, then turn it over to the Feds. Just another example of California being totally messed up.
I'd say this would be perfect to go after politicians with. I live in BC. Unfortunately, Canada has a federal police force (some urban areas have provincial-city police). The federal storm troopers would never turn on politicians.
I've known people who travel around the country to buy collectibles and have large amounts of cash to pay for them because the people don't trust checks or want to pay the fees for other methods. I've seen comic books sold at comic con for $35K in cash. Now if you're the government, you have access to all the tax records so if someone pays for a mansion but has declared no where near enough income, then sure, investigate. The idea of simply taking the money and not going through due process is nuts.
In Canada they do have to pay for court plus you can get your lawyer fees if you win buy showing you had a strong case that they were wrong and most lawyers will jump on it because they can bill the government more. I just went through this with I.C.B.C they are a government auto insurance company in B.C
@@GUNNYCANUCK intrest you can recoup if it's over a period of time can be awarded but in Canada emotional suffering is something that you can get but they have a cap on it and they make you jump through hoops to be awarded it
@@robertlondon7699 That's the so-called "English rule" where the loser pays the winner's court fees. In the "Land of the Free" (cough), it's the American rule where no such rule exists. Getting attorney fees is really hard.
In British Columbia, the government is really keeping control over how money flows through the province. For example if you were to sell a used vehicle privately, when transferring ownership, the government has control over the cost of the used vehicle. So instead of selling your old car for $2000+tax, the cost plus tax on the vehicle is based on what THEIR evaluation of it's value is.
Wife looked at me when I told her today’s Subject and said “You need to watch which TH-cam Channels you’re Watching”. 😬 I told her this already happens in US.
My wealth I made years ago was explained years ago via "The Sunshine List" we have here. Where ordinairy people can see your salary if you work in the public sector I remember the CRA asking me about how I obtained it, I pointed towards my job and the list. Got audited by my own father, and he was just saying what a waste of time and resources lol.
Citizen How were you able to afford that Minnesota Timberwolves T-shirt and where did you get it? We now want that shirt off your back! What a wonderful world it is!
No one would consider a T wolves shirt a sign of wealth. Same with any MN sport franchise, as they are not interested in winning or their fans. They are only interested in making money via threats of moving the franchise, lest the get a new tax payer subsidized stadium... Owning a MN jersey or similar is a sign of stupidity though.
I live in Vancouver but don't have enough money to worry about this new law. However, it is still very troublesome and there is a good chance it will be applied beyond its intended gang control purpose. What next?
We already have civil asset forfeiture laws in BC and even people's cars have been taken and auctioned lol Of course piggies will take free money with no consequences
And it wont realy solve things. Basicaly the criminals will simply store their millions of $ somewhere and quit british columbia or canada as a whole to go buy their mansion and luxury cars Just before the time to file taxes. They gonna buy a ticket to Dubai or Signapour or even russia. And live like multi millionaire life there
I feel like they're also doing it with the intention to have all who don't have banks to save or like to use card. To push them to start putting into banks.
If people are taking your money without your permission, that's called stealing. And even if it's the government, the average person should have the right to take any and all actions to stop that person or persons from stealing their possessions, money or otherwise.
This kind if law was recently introduced in the UK to try and deal with the unbelievable amount of corruption money that ends up in London. If I recall correctly the first tike it was used was on the wife of some foreign official who was somehow spending multiple times her husband's salary on shopping sprees.
Unlike civil asset forfeiture, these UWO's in the UK at least have to be authorised by a judge, which means there must be at least some evidence. It's still guaranteed to be abused by the authorities.
Making sure that government officials are NOT corrupt is literally the only good use of something like this. But that's exactly the opposite of what would happen.
@Robert by join them. Robb the politicians and they can't fire you cause you bringing in so so much money for the worst politicians. Can't beat them, join them.
At some point we have to hit a breaking point (rock bottom), where the sheep finally decide ENOUGH, and force our government to serve us and not the crazy rich.
As a BC Canadian citizen I can say this happens so much !! Me an my wife had saved up 35 grand to buy rebuilt 1983 Chevrolet pick up truck. We had to drive 4 hours to pick it up, anyways on the way we where pulled over an the officer took are 35 grand cash an we never seen it again
I see someone posted the notion that such laws will change only when a LEO gets killed in the process of stealing, er, seizing. I have to believe this must have already happened somewhere. And I can only report that, were I on the jury where the facts came in that the LEO was taking something without a warrant or probable cause, or, worse, without identifying himself, and got blasted, the citizen so infringed is gonna walk. I also imagine this roadside interaction: "Are you carrying a large sum of money?" "Why? Are you soliciting a bribe?"
The scenario you bring forth is exactly why canada has decided to end gun sales and begin confiscation of guns. Canada has become an evil socialist enterprise. USA is not far behind.
@Anne and Larry Brunelle The Court will disallow you to use that as a defense or even refer to the concept. Hell, Judges toss out jury verdicts now because they weren't what the judge wanted, finding some reason to do that. And I can see you haven't been on a US jury lately where the Judge instructs you to which specific points you are deciding, what their interpretation of that law is, and that you cannot allow anything else to enter into the decision. So in effect, you aren't deciding anything which wasn't'[t already clear. If you're ever on a Jury in the US vote your conscience, and when asked about it all you say is "I've made my decision based on what I saw and heard in the Courtroom and I'm not changing it". And you say nothing else- NOTHING. No matter even if the Judge questions you, no matter any arguments they make otherwise. The moment you exceed that phrase they've got you. As long as you stick exactly with it, they have to leave you alone and accept your vote.
I remember an article by a young man studying accounting. He wound up doing the books for a local gang, kind of a franchise I suppose. What he found was, that even the bosses in the local group, earned less than minimum wage, mostly lived in the projects with relatives, and didn't have cars, let alone the fancy ones. So, controlling gangs is a lie, and they know it.
If members would make more money going legit, why be in the gang, where it's high risk, reward? Or at least join/merge with a more profitable gang? Not from those neighborhoods, so no experience with it beyond what's in the media.
Bingo, it's got fuck all to do with fighting crime, and everything to do with giving government officials the power to STEAL people's property for themselves/their department. Just like Taxes.
Ok, for the travellers; how many times when going for a driven excursion, out of province/state, where you spot an interesting looking little roadside shop so you stop? They don’t take debit or credit, cash only? It’s happened to me lots, especially in tourism type towns. So when I travel prior to starting my trip, I go to the bank and withdraw cash. I live in the middle of Canada in Winnipeg. But even a road trip to Ontario or BC , I take cash! Then consider the out of country travel. You go to a bank and convert your money to the currency of the country you’re visiting. So I’d get stopped in the US and because I have $10k(?) in American cash, I’m automatically a drug dealer? Having all my money stolen by cops? This is just 1 of a few reasons that I do not visit your great country, because your law enforcement is a blemish on your country.
It's not just law enforcement. Most of the people who are most in favor of our 2nd Amendment are also those who support the actions taken by law enforcement. This includes DAs, judges, etc...Our entire system needs purging.
I had a US customs incursion at Pt. huron coming back from Canada with 4 bottles of ketchup that caused a secondary search, they opened my laptop bag which contained a laptop , 2 hard drives, some SD cards and a small camera and a ziplock bag containing a mixture of small bills (change from coffee shops that I used for tips or to pay for coffee while using their wifi while traveling). Maybe $150 bucks worth in $1, 5s 10s, 5 hours later after all my data was downloaded off every device I had and my car throughly searched , every thing was returned and I was free to go. Lesson learned don't bring ketchup back from Canada. .
I had secondary at the airport with one lemon in my suitcase. Though it did not take that much time for search. I also had my trunk searched having peaches at Nevada-California border years ago. Driving from Nevada, had to through them away, though peaches were grown in California and bought in Vegas supermarket :). Better not carry food into US
It's not safe to travel with electronic devices through US airports or border crossings anymore. There's no telling what they will do with your data. They may even place trackers on your device without your knowledge.
The folks at CBP are draconian as hell. As a Canadian who crossed back and forth as a trucker, I was very careful with US customs . Most American drivers I talked to told me they never felt as violated as dealing with US Customs. Canada Customs was fine.....they were reasonable and professional
Canadian bar associations strongly advise lawyers not to carry work laptops and phones across the US border (and at least some law firms plain prohibit it for their employees). The issue is liability if client information is leaked during border check
I live in Vancouver b.c. we are fighting a losing battle against criminal organizations. Government policy has also made the situation worse. With out doubt innocent people will unfortunately be caught in this. But something has to be done, I'm not saying that this is the answer, but rather drastic measures need to be taken. Property was being used to launder money, houses are being bought with cash, way above asking price. This was common place.
Thanks for this heads-up, Steve... I've passed this on to my "wealthy" BC cousins! But this isn't just a threat to the rich: all citizens can soon be victimized by hazy Canadian CF rules. Confiscating wealth, under the guise of civil protection, is too tempting to overzealous "tough-on-crime" politicos on both sides of the border.
Oh, this won’t be used on wealthy people. They fight back. They have connections. It’s a tax on being too poor to fight back. It’s straight up sheriff of Nottingham stuff.
This is not a big threat to the rich. They have the funds to defend themselves. This is a threat to independent folks struggling to earn a living, and work side gigs while holding down a shit job. The home mechanic rebuilding and selling the occasional car on the side, or selling extra baked goods to your neighbours for extra cash. Hard working industrious low income earners can appear to have "unexplainable" wealth. However when it is seized, they have no recourse to recover the lost wealth. This is why it is so important to record and report income honestly, even when you are reporting to a government lead by a political party and or agenda that you didn't vote for or agree with.
I thought a lot of that was Chinese nationals buying up properties in various cities across the US and Canada? I know they have been doing that a lot in places like New York City and San Francisco. Maybe they’ll demand that they explain where they got their money in China and confiscate their properties if they can’t!
There is an inside joke within the Communist Chinese Government that roughly translated goes something like this: "The money flows from Beijing to the _Trudeau Foundation_ like the Yangtze River"
Canada is orderly, grey, clean, requires vaccinations, you can't afford a home, all healthcare and liquor is run by the government and you pledge allegiance to the supreme leader. North Korea.
They should then go after all politicians because they are all millionaires, and there money is all from unknown sources.... and they make there money by making these laws!
This has been in place for years. I personally know a couple of guys who have a legal paying job as a side hustle to try and prevent the police from seizing their houses etc when they get arrested.
Canadian law is going to be a bit difference, but I have no idea how this was ever legal in the US. It's pretty blatantly a violation of the constitution and due process rights of the individuals. I would assume that Canada, as well as most other modern free nations, would have some equivalent to say that the government can't just take people's properties without some sort of process and/or payment.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade local governments can pass what laws they want and the Supreme Court won't just rule on them. There has to be someone sue the state for the Supreme Court to hear that case. Same with the may issue gun licenses in New York and California for example
@@SmallSpoonBrigade it's kinda messed up that the local government will do what they want and not follow the constitution. We the people should be doing something about it I suppose
There are a lot of properties in London that are owned by offshore companies which have a very murky ownership chain, there should be a way that the true owner of a property should be found out. Something needs to be done to combat these 'offshore' companies, currently we have a member of the House of Lords who appears to have gained £30mil from a company that her family appears to own (more murky details) that she pushed the UK Gov to give PPE contracts to.
The burden should be on the government to prove it, not assume guilt and act on those assumptions. If international machinations make that difficult, tough s***
@@howieBMTYAGB Not really, if we as a country decide that in order to own property in our country we demand that you tell us who owns it, that is up to us. If you don't like letting a country know who owns a property you are welcome to bugger off to another country and buy property there.
But you pay more SDLT if you buy with a company rather than as an individual, so the government gets its' extra cash and happily looks the other way. Far as I'm aware UK's version of Unexplained Wealth Orders have only ever been successfully prosecuted once, and the person in question is appealing. So it's kinda a lame duck law that costs a fortune to prosecute because the cases are so complex and the people in question can use their vast wealth to buy the best lawyers to protect them.
Those properties are always owned by LLCs so the rich don’t have to declare the money that buys them. They just receive the benefit of use. There doesn’t seem to be any desire to tax that income. Just the little guys because its easier.
How can the government require banks to report deposits to your account with out a warrant. The Fourth Amendment states that no one can search possessions and property without good reason or a warrant.
They have a good reason...the citizens have trillions in wealth that THE GOVERNMENT wants to spend!....now stand on your head and lessee just what possibly illegal booty falls from those pockets!😡
They slipped it into the stimulus bill in the states that the banks have to report to the irs any deposits or withdrawals into accounts of $600 + now…so lol….the $10,000 limit wasn’t so bad
Civil forfeiture is a thing in Canada. However, they need to show a direct link to a criminal enterprise. It isn't used very often. Here in Toronto the Hells Angels had their clubhouse seized under civil forfeiture.
@@OlivierCaron There is not much difference if you cannot pay your bills. They will freeze your account very quickly, but like any government they move at a pace that makes a tortoise look like it is setting world speed record when unfreezing the account.
Sounds like a government press release. It's not true. In Canada, they only need to show a direct link if you challenge it. If they take all your money and you can't afford a lawyer, they don't need to show a direct link to anything, they just take your money and then threaten to charge you with something if you don't sign it over. It is used on an almost daily basis, but most people can't afford a lawyer to fight it.
I've been watching you for about a year now.. Were close in age, I'm a year older. We have quite the similar educations. I'm quite the world traveler since I have duel citizenship with America and Italia a right from birth (the Italian one. Was born in America)... I don't believe I've seen you this direct about how FOS the American Gov is with the civil forfeiture raping of some of it's people. You summed it up about "you being one who elects them then they higher people that come back on you" perfectly said. Believe it or not, this is the very thing that people like me and millions of others talk about and discuss as to why the Gov needs to be overthrown and corrected as to the original meaning by the men who fought for 7years to make this country. They are turning over in their graves knowing this regime of meat heads have bastardized their meaning and intentions. This was a very good video, you shined for sure.
I wish the supreme court would make it so that civil asset forfeiture only applied to ABANDONED money/items, like the abandoned ships. If you know who possesses it, use the criminal process.
i live in Canada and have lived in BC and i can tell u without fear of contradiction that if any part of this is put into effect not only will it morph into a CANADA wide problem , because this is being floated by a province but as sure as snowfall it will become law CANADA wide this is being put up by a premier but is being backed by a federal entity for sure as an tester to get their foot in the door
It's already a not-law weapon our federal government can use with a simple wave of either the emergency's act, or the not withstanding clause which lets them wipe their ass with our worthless charter. They used it to seize cash, bank accounts, vehicles, businesses, houses, and children from protestors and supporters of the trucker protests.
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Unexplained wealth should be a tool to prevent the proceeds of crime from being a benefit to victimizing people. Instead of police departments getting the cash which creates a perverse incentive, it should go into a fund for the victims of crime to be made whole, recieve counselling, etc. They have a system like that in Australia and I thought that was a wise thing when I heard about it while watching Crownies and then the spin off Janet King
@@MonkeyJedi99 No, unexplained wealth does make sense in the situations that are reasonable, sometimes it's not possible to prosecute a foreign national war criminal or embezzler because the information and witnesses aren't available. The perverse incentives are the problem, if you truly take proceeds of crime from criminals and then put that into a fund for the victims of crime than I think that's ok. It's the reasonableness of the whole enterprise and that's why it's so disgusting as is. Also the way Canada does it doesn't neccesarilly happen when cops search somebody and find money, it's when known criminals have massive amoutns of unexplained wealth and when they can't account for it then it's confiscated. That's not an overreach, prosecutions should only happen when prosecutors are confident in conviction so when that isn't the case but criminals are incredibly wealthy through proceeds of crime it's ok for the government to confiscate that.
@@bencheevers6693 I think MonkeyJedi is talking about normal people being treated as criminals and their property as assets gained in a crime, without ever being charged or convicted of a crime. The funds should be seized after the court has already declared them guilty, not before; freezing the assets during court proceedings I can understand though, in case they try to offload it or hide it elsewhere.
@@bencheevers6693 If they haven't been convicted of a crime they aren't criminals. If a crime occurs that the government can't prosecute due to lack of evidence them's the breaks. The province says they want to use this to go after gang leaders, so already it's not about people committing crimes in foreign countries, the crimes are happening squarely in the government's jurisdiction. Even if we agreed that this tool was allowable for gang members as stated, that's invariably not how these types of powers are used. They might use it against a couple big gang leaders for the press but based on the history of civil asset forfeiture, tax audits, etc, going after the big fish is too difficult and expensive because they fight back, they'll use it against small business owners or people with their savings outside retirement accounts, probably often seizing little enough money that fighting to get it back would cost more than the money stolen.
Where did you get your wealth then, Ben Cheevers? Sorry, I don't believe you. Go ahead and surrender your wealth to the local authorities until you can prove the origin.
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The painful irony of this is that most politicians have extraordinary amounts of wealth that seems to have come to them though flimsy or dubious channels.
You beat me to it! 😂
No no no no no. They are just really really really, really good at picking stocks. Like jedi masters of stock trading.
@Culture Warrior Alert System This entitled ignorance is incredibly bad for society
In the US they could start with the Biden / Pelosi “Unexplained Wealth Act”.
You used too many words. "Seems to have" is unnecessary.
Imagine the insane amounts of money that could be collected if these kinds of laws were directed at politicians.
We could solve homelessness in the US with that kind of money.
@@MonkeyJedi99 Or create more
The country would bankrupt itself while simultaneously filling it's coffers to bursting 🤑🤑
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We could solve homelessness by getting rid of property taxes on at least one building.
As in letting each person not have to pay property taxes on one property they own. It would widely benefit homeowners, and lower rent to renters.
Except there are a relatively small number of politicians. Still too many for other reasons, to be sure, but not enough to have much of a financial impact.
This kind of thing has hurt a lot of people. I saw a video awhile ago where this man did not like banks, and was traveling cross country with just over 100,000 dollars. Cops pulled him over because he was doing the speed limit...which they deemed suspicious. 🙈 He allowed them to search his car...they found his money, and despite having already been stopped and searched before, he had paperwork from another officer in a different state saying he'd been cleared. They took his money with 0 evidence of a crime. He was left without money to finish his trip and had to call friends and family for gas money.
Guy lost his life savings while minding his own business.
Never treat authorities like they're your friend. Don't answer questions, don't talk to them. If you've committed no crimes, then they can pound sand.
Never allow cops to do anything
"Never treat authorities like they're your friend." I'm glad people are starting to realize how black people have been feeling for at least a century.
Didn't he get it it all back though? The cops just over-reacted for security measure..
@@freeross371 annnnnnd right on queue, race is brought up.
@@freeross371 problem is black people actually do commit a disproportionate about of crimes. sucks for the majority who dont commit crimes tho
It's this type of thing that drives people to slap armor on a bulldozer and tear things up .
@@thenoneckpeoplerepresentat8074 I see your point, but it would also depend on how its configured. if you were to use say a single direction slot similar to the screws that Ive seen used at rest stop bathrooms where it only has flats for tightening and its ramped on the loosing side to turn a key in the ignition, then no amount of attempts to reverse the direction of the key would work to turn it off unless physical access was made. And there is the possibility to still use an electronic starter like remote start, with a fuse before the controller that is then intentionally blown to prevent the remote start unit from being able to actuate its shutdown function
@@manitoba-op4jx hmmm, a drone swarm of dozers. I like it.
In Canada, something needs to be done soon.
A hero, may he rest in peace..
God rest his soul. 🙏
I would love to see Politicians explain their wealth!
Double talk and deflect...easy-peezy...
There’s a video on The Undercurrent channel where GOP Rep Mo Brooks explains behind closed doors (via hidden camera) how committee assignments have a price and there’s a clear quid pro quo with donors. It may be something most of us know, but hearing him explain it makes it clear how utterly corrupt our government is.
Meanwhile lawmakers have people convinced that businesses and campaign financing should be less regulated, furthering the corruption.
Well you see they had 'friends' provide stock tips and they recieved donations from random friendly strangers.
I'm sure there is language written into it so that they are exempt.
The Obama's went in the white house with about $1m net worth, left 8 years later with a net worth of $40m. This on an annual gross salary of $400k. And now they are worth $70m. Nothing to see here, move on!
I live in B.C. Canada. Money laundering was done primarily in casinos. People used a lot of cash to buy chips and sit at the big tables(usually Poker). They play sort of casually then after maybe 30 minutes their cel phone rings. The Launderer looks at the phone, gets a wrinkle on their face and all of a sudden declares that they have to leave right away. They tip the dealer( don't b cheap here) and take their stash of chips to the cashier. They get a cheque for their chips and go to the bank. Good money for bad. To my knowledge they r still doing this.
major casinos across the world, number one business is -- money laundering.
Check cashing places are the poor man's "casino".
That used to work. Not any more.
Only in BC lottery corp casinos. Yes it does work. I used to dump large amounts and clean money full time job. Government are evil. They also bring in fentanyl and other drugs. Yes they do
@@eddiespagetti8395 Ya it used too...... not anymore. They have been on to that for years.
In Singapore, this applies to wealth possessed by government officials. Any official who has more wealth than they can explain is assumed to be taking bribes.
How incredibly refreshing. Would welcome that idea taking hold in the USA, where people of humble origins become unbelievably wealthy during their stints as "public servants".
That's how it should be.
not surprising, that nation works, and every time we check, it works as obviously ever other country should. they banned racism, not by attacking one side, but by attacking everyone who did anything even remotely racist, and surprise, racism is not an issue in country with white, asian and many mixed population, not even the small but existing muslim population do their usual acts, since they would be deported of prisoned for it immediately.
And so they take their bribes in the form of favors, gifts, and events. Gifts to family members. I.e, you can use the yacht but it remains in my possession. Or your son gets a job at my company where they do nothing and get paid millions. This happens everywhere. Bribes are inevitable, the only solution is to pay politicians well and destroy them if they are blatant in their abuse, but there will always be bribes.
US politicians have to list their wealth.
Remember on Gillian’s Island how Mr Howell had big steamer trunks of cash? If only the cops in Hawaii had known, they would have been rescued much quicker
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All politicians should be held to that standard!!!
can you imagine a sheriff using civil asset forfeiture against the government employees going through their county.
If they're taking it from government employees it would be criminal asset forfeiture
That would be great. Kind of like the sheriff in Colorado that stood up to the BLM. They went into his office and requested his help in confiscating cattle from a rancher. He told them he would be there and if they did not have a court order signed by a judge, he would be backing the rancher.
great idea
@@johnmcmickle5685 sheriff's are suspect, often poltical in nature and more corrupt than the average precinct.
Their county?? That explains it all.. 😂😂
What an awful thing to realize your personal property or money can be seized essentially without recourse merely because an "official" *thinks* it may be suspect. No rights, no trial, no evidence, not even probable cause, and it is taken without cause or recourse. Utterly horrendous.
It people will talk about how great it is to be a Canadian.
As I understand what Steve has said here, they don't even have to think it's suspect. They simply ask the person for an explanation of the wealth and if that person refuses to engage, the person is "guilty."
@@mikepalmer1971 some of them probably, not nearly as many as the people in the US singing their praises of the US, call and get the best country on the planet and to ever exist. We have civil asset forfeiture, it's the same kind of robbery, except here, you can have a give the police a valid reason that you have the cash and they'll still seize it and make you sue them to get it back.
“Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it.” - John Adams
It is far worse in the US. Where in the present generations of Americans are the Adams, Jeffersons and Franklins? No one to lead the fight against tyranny?
True dat.
Half of Philadelphia’s police and district attorneys budget came from civil forfeiture at one point. No way there could be any motivation for corruption.
I have always wondered how senators who make $100000 a year managed to become multi-millionaires...
Senators make $174,000.
@@capmidnite plus all that insider trading they get.
Work 12 years, investing and doing “speaking arrangements … aka come stands round say some stuff now here’s 2million.
Become multimillionaire? 90% are already millionaires prior to obtaining the position.
Be sure they did their paper work to cover up these "sudden" wealth increases.
This will help Canadian politicians against their political enemies for sure.
Over half of Canadians work for the government and support either the Liberal NDP or Green partys, and that's not including Quebec which is even more socialist.
Most of their wages are paid ine benefits, so cash is highly unusual to them, they wont give a fuck.
We've also had debit cards for decades, and cash has never really been king here.
It's no problem that we were named the first world tax haven, leading offshore holding state for US entities, no problem that Vancouver is a global human smuggling hub, the problem are gangs, that's competition, and Canadians dont like competition.
@@davidjohnson8655 Sadly, this is so. Those people form the state. The rest of us are *enemies of the state* by default.
As a Canadian, This country has already gone down the drain and is 3/4 way to the settling tank. They want to try and take my legally owned guns? Nope, They want to take my home? Nope. This is the hill I die on.
So you're OK with the Chinese takeover bringing in money and claiming refugee status while buying all the land?
@@telivizion3979 either you replied to the wrong comment.... Or you're reading the wrong script.
Stand strong.
Are you First Nations? Or can you imagine how they feel yet? Die on your hill and I will give it back to the indigenous 👌
@@voidremoved too late for that. They wouldn't know what to do with it. Probably just give it over to china for wool blankets and muskets
I love how we are always told that the slippery slope argument is a fallacy, but then at the same time they are constantly pushing for expanding authority by adding onto existing laws, saying "well we already do something sorta similar so we should be able to take it a step farther and do this too".
The longer I live, the less I believe that the slippery slope is any kind of falacy. It looks more like straight up logic.
People often label sound logic as a slippery slope fallacy when it isn’t. It’s just a way to discredit someone’s argument.
I remember bringing up multiple examples of this in university when talking about Slippery Slope. it is a fallacy to call it a fallacy. That is how society operates.
Slippery slope is only a fallacy if there's no connecting point. The argument "if x then y" without justification is the fallacy, but when used properly it's merely "doing this will lead to that because the justification will be the same"
@Joltacks history is littered with examples of 'slippery slopes', only a fool would ignore the landscape before them.
The screwed up thing is, these laws always fail to hit their intended target but instead some innocent person minding their own business.
These laws always hit their intended target. That's how you can tell who the intended target is.
The intended target IS the one using it.
I bet you voted repeatedly, right?? 😂😂
You're assuming that innocent people aren't the intended target!
That's where your wrong dek. These laws ARE hitting their intended targets. Forget about who the politicians say it's aimed at and pay attention to who it's aimed at in practice.
Thanks for the info on Canada.
Useless law in BC since a lot of the cash comes from Hong Kong.
I am in Ontario and we usually only hear about wealth confiscation when a drug bust goes down. They typically take guns, cash, cars, houses as proceeds of crime. Where the proceeds go after confiscation is a grey area, they claim it goes to victims of crime. I have never seen an article about victims being compensated? Like all government events involving money it probably needs an audit.
I was buying a car in cash(less than 10K). Is it weird that I was more afraid that the police will rob me, than some other criminal?
police are the largest and most heavily funded gang. of course you should be.
No, it's not weird at all that you are afraid of the police in that circumstance. But it is a damn shame that our rights are not being respected by the current governments.
That's what money orders are for.... Or a handful of other options.
you should be afraid. more money was "seized" by cops in 2021 than was stolen in robberies in the USA. Steve has a video on it.
@waltersobchak1719 Because no one in their right mind would accept a cheque and bank drafts, etc have their own issues including forgery. You can use a bank instrument but it should include a trip to the bank to verify. I did that when I sold my car. But for a 5000 dollar purchase it may not be worth the hassle. I'd just use cash myself.
I'm a 53 yr old Canadian. For the last 20 years or so, since 9/11 i guess, I've been growing increasingly alarmed and dissappointed with my government. I don't understand from where it derives its powers. It's like a creeping fungus. I pity my children and grandchildren.
Stop being a complainer and become fighter for people.
@@AKUJIVALDO You don't know me. I've fought for my country. I've fought for my family. When something I see is wrong, I have every right to complain about it. How about YOU stop judging me. I don't come to McDonald's and tell you how to flip burgers.
@@basildraws yes, yes, you fought for "your" country which is being pissed away by Turdeo gleefully, he and his violate Canada's people rights and you are silent.
@@AKUJIVALDO no, I’m not silent. What is your problem?! Why are you accusing me of all these things you know nothing about?
U people got to unite and defeat this evil people like Justin have to be the homeless people
Wow just goes to show how the Canadian media fails. I had no idea about this but fortunately I live in Alberta. Thanks for the heads up.
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An aspect of this that no one talks about is that very often the "undocumented wealth" the government is so worried about comes from drug sales the government has outlawed. The desire of the government to say "these gains are illegitimate, and we are therefore free to seize them any time we feel like it" is an incentive for government to define as much activity as possible as illegitimate, including dictating what one does with one's own body.
The same rule is why the Cartel formed in Mexico. Individuals were sick of Mexican political corruption that smaller politicians and military personnel decided to create their own militia to battle the government, originally. Now the cartel dabbles in drugs and executions, they still fight Mexico’s government, but not for the reason they first formed.
Imagine the money that could be made "legitimately" if things were just legalized and regulated, we could be teaching harm reduction on a much bigger scale and there wouldn't be anywhere near the amount of drug od.
@@dijosto Why should it be a goal of ours to see that the government collects as much money as possible? From what I've seen, they haven't done a very good job of spending the money they already have.
It's a mistake to assume that the people making these predatory policies want to "reduce harm," prevent drug overdoses, or anything else besides stealing as much as they possibly can.
@@dijosto Exactly, most ODs come from people having no idea what is in whatever they are buying and how much of it is there.
Just a thought: This may not be the pilot experiment. Remember, during the Canadian Trucker Convoy protest, the federal government seized bank accounts with questionable legal framework. Perhaps that incident was the pilot, and this is blessed and sanctioned sequela.
Actually, use of emergency powers during truck convoy is currently hotly discussed in the parliament (news are full of it), and couple of ministers and RCMP commissioner is under pressure.
Anybody who was there knows it was a 'protest'. It was idiocy in motion.
@@dmitripogosian5084 It's not comforting to hear a few politicians are "under pressure" when rightfully the entire executive should have been immediately replaced for having clearly and obviously violated Canada's charter of rights and any reasonable interpretation of human rights. I no longer view Canada as a liberal democracy, it's a dictatorship attempting to legitimize itself with a veneer of legal process.
I can almost hear fellow Canadians packing their luggage. I’ve said it before, if a gov is not appreciating it’s citizens, they have a duty to relocate and pay taxes in a country that does.
And go where? America? Same goes on here.
@@chiefkyle1098 I'm thinking Nicaragua or somewhere in Central or South America. I have no desire to stay in this country anymore.
I said it before and I’ll say it again, these laws will only change when someone gets killed. In specific, a law enforcement officer gets killed. I use the word killed, and not murdered, because they will be killed by someone who is defending their property from a strong armed robbery under the color of law. That’s when these laws will change.
It hasn't worked for red flag laws, why would it for this?
@@GoingGoneGalt because the populace when they are really made aware are fundamentally against civil asset forfeiture. No one likes it except those in power. The publicity behind some officers getting killed behind this bullshit I think will be enough to start to shut these laws down from the political pressure to do so. The fundamental unfairness of it is not enough to shut it down like Steve said because it’s too damn lucrative. I would have to ask the police officer if that officer thought that it was worth losing his or her life over. I suspect most of them would say that it wasn’t. It’s strong arm robbery under the color of law. as long as those in power field that they can do it and get away with it without consequence of any kind they will continue to do it. There are bullies in law-enforcement. There are politicians that are fundamentally bullies. Bully: a person who habitually seeks to harm or intimidate those whom they perceive as vulnerable.
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You’re right these laws would change after multiple people gets killed, but it won’t change how you expect. Politicians will double down on the law which will pretty much arm police in military tactical gear to enforce the same law, if it gets bad enough they’ll up the law with much more criminal time to wear breaking said law becomes a felony with the max sentence of life in prison and then having the Nation Guard then supporting law enforcement enforcing said law. In today’s society you have to aim for the head of where all of this coming from, killing a few of the enforcers doesn’t do anything when they replaced with another to enforce the law but this time with better gear and backup.
Get ready for a 🐷 roast!
I am Canadian and I can tell you that human rights infringement in Canada is flourishing and it has been an issue for many years, but it was masked by the Canadian government until recently. The cracks in their image are starting to show
Welcome your Supreme Lord Justin Trudeau
@@jasonmajere2165 Now that's not nice. He wants to be called "Our dear leader." He felt "Our dear benevolent leader" was too much. On the way to being just like North Korea.
It’s going to get worse now that Canadians are actively being disarmed.
In a few generations open violence on unruly Canadians will be accepted practice as is done in other disarmed regimes.
Trudeau is the poster child for the great reset, it is coming.
Western countries are busy accusing other nations of human rights infringing. But when they do it its ok and most people just swallow it like a fool
Justin and crew first... love to see them explain their sudden wealth and cayman island accounts...
Thank you for this article it illustrates how important it is to be aware of what the government is up to
Instead of suspected crime being used to explain unexplained wealth, they will use unexplained wealth to suspect you of a crime.
North American real estate has always been price-inflated by foreign wires and unusual fiat deposits that face minimal scrutiny. The law needs to fix banking. It’s truly the banks who facilitate “unexplained wealth.”
some banking laws have politicians that said if we do this we will create banks that are too big to fail
I don’t believe you. Everything electronic is traceable. That’s why you don’t hear complaints about bank account seizure like you do with tangible assets.
@@MASTERTRAINERMADDOG Can you break down your definition of tangible assets as it applies to this video please??
I think the banks as private entities are, and should be, disinterested. Unless they cross the line and knowingly and willingly facilitate illegal activity. There's plenty of wriggle room for them to not look though.
We have had had huge fines when major banks put in place policies and processes to allow cash to be laundered simply by depositing through ATM machines, and bypassing cash transaction thresholds that must be reported. They can be arrogant.
Canada actually has an agency called Fintrac that tracks foreign money transfers. Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of non-residents pumping up the RE markets in NA, but this law is about citizens and permanent residents who can buy homes without any visible means. If someone gets a transfer from a family in another country, it's easily tracked.
Got this video randomly recommended and Im just gonna say it's always fun to find random americans with a Finnish name. Just a fun thing to find Finnish heritage around the world, as a Finn myself.
Oh and my condolences to all the Canadians that have to live in a dystopia
@Echo, funny comment but plausible, making up short falls for incompetent monetary decisions.
Ontario,Canada…My buddy took 3500$ out of bank had it in a envelope with the receipt from the bank. He was on his way to buy a car and got pulled over he has all “proper paperwork to drive” but they took his money! He fought it but Took him 6 months to get it back all for no reason other than he had 3500 in cash.
Just because you have a receipt from a bank that you withdraw cash from doesn't mean the cash isn't illicit. You would need to prove the source of the money when you first acquired it, BEFORE depositing it in the bank. If the deposit was the result of positive investment returns, then you would also need to prove where you got the money to make the investment that has paid out, and so on and so forth. This is why it's potentially so dangerous...If you invested $10k wisely thirty years ago, and recently sold the investment for $5 million, you would still need to prove where you got the $10k from.
@@athletixbc ridiculous. Innocent until proven guilty is the first principle of a free society.
In Canada all forfeitures have to have a hearing in court, so you do have the opportunity to demonstrate it is legitimate. If your friend had a legitimate receipt it would be returned.
The people who have problems are the ones who can't show it was legitimate.
At first I thought this was more akin to IRS actions, but when you got to the point that they already have forfeiture laws that cover the standard cases, I understood how incredibly harmful this could be.
I would never buy anthing at a government auction. Just beacuse of this. I would not know how they came by these items that they are auctioning.
Look up Fatca and Fbars on Americans living abroad. Talk about intrusive.
Thanks
In Sweden, we have similar laws. It's written fairly broad but the rules and regulations disallows targeting people who are not criminals. It's in general used only on persons who declare no income and does it for years. You also need to have a sentence against you, or associate with people who are known for crimes that handle money in bigger scale. You may also get targeted for taxation for your wealth where your likely income is calculated and the result is normally 120 % tax on whatever you have in assets. But you really need to flash your cash to be targeted.
I heard a story about a nurse who was riding her new e-bike around town. The police stopped her and asked if she had a receipt for it right there and then. Most certainly she didn't, who lugs around paperwork for every item you have with you? So they took the bike with her screaming, the police screaming and she had to take a day off work because she had to clear the mess. And the result, 3 days later she got her bike, an excuse from the commanding officer and $1700 for her trouble. What the police was ordered to do was seize expensive things from young men who couldn't afford to buy those thing. Not target working women who had bikes and phones.
so harrasing young men is okay?
@@atomanni-k5m Yes. They stop everyone and check for receipts or reasonable income. Wearing a $1000 jacket, the newest iPhone and a lot of gold when you don’t declare an income, not adding up. But taking a bike from a nurse is not the best move.
@@arneanka4633 no reason to give her 1700$ taxpayers money. but its your country not mine so whatever
@@atomanni-k5m So the police should be able to seize anyone's property without probable cause and then you should sue them to get you stuff back? Wow, let's target the elderly and disable, those who are not likely to fight for their rights. How many do you know who have all receipts for every item you have on you at hand to show to the police?
@@arneanka4633 they should give it back but not extra 1700$. and its not thr police who pays those 1700...
This is one of those laws that will selectively be applied. Take anyone and ask them to explain where their lifelong accumulation of wealth comes from. Even banks don’t keep their records forever. So in fact each time this law will be used, the state will always win in court because it’s literally impossible for anyone to prove the provenance of all their wealth due to the fact that no one keeps records of all their revenue and all their receipts forever.
I am in my mid 60s and can go back 30 years. It is only the last 15 years that my income went to a level where I had enough to have a reasonable surplus. My National Insurance and pension contributions are a direct percentage of income so proof is there anyway. I do not see an issue.
No one cares if you are the exception to the norm.
@@mbak7801 The problem is that theoretically you can be home watching TV, someone knocks at your door and suddenly, it becomes your job to prove that you did nothing wrong. That’s the problem. If they think you did something wrong, it should be their job to prove that, not the other way around.
@@mbak7801 youre poor. no one cares since you dont have anything anyway.
Totally agree. I only keep records for a few years for IRS taxing :p reasons. Other wise. i would have room full of documents etc.. Becomes not practical. Plus receipts and other thing fade over time. Some stuff can 't even be read anymore.
If something like this applies. Tons of small business people will lose ton of money. Cause eventually you'll can't find the documents anymore.
When I was working with GM, we had a customer call in requesting money. He claimed he was driving his TransAm down the highway, when the rear hatch opened, and $50K in cash flew out. He had no receipt, or proof of the money, and could not explain why he had loose cash in the car. Needless to say, we declined his request.
All that cash & too cheap for a briefcase or two to put it in? Or just a flat out liar with a great imagination? 🤣
WOW!! I thought I was the only one that happened to except I lost $500,000. Bum trunk latch I tell ya.
I saw a lawyer type driving down the road (at least a few blocks) with open briefcase and cup of coffee. Was driving a school bus and the kids tried to get driver's attention. He flipped off the kids and accelerated at the green, with the expected result of his driving angry.
@@TheBooban nope. He also stated he saw the money blow out, but was too embarrassed to stop and pick it up.
GM used to be called Generous Motors, because they gave away money or warranties for any reason.
Anyone else think the poor guy is now in some hole, in the same desert he lost that money in?
Thanks Steve as I live in BC and didn't know that.
I live in British Columbia Canada.
I am not surprised in the slightest that this is happening.
@Echo USA conveniently found a lot of gold in Iraq and Libya 🤑🤑🤑
When my wife's parents died we found out they were LOADED and their life style would have never let on how much they had. it was from 60+ years of investments and frugal spending. They could have lived in a better house, a better car in a better place but chose not to.
Well if they were happy, why not, most people that are rich, have decent but not expensive homes/cars/places to live.
Cost less for the upkeep, and they didn't feel the need to show off to their peers.
@@lmcgregoruk In the words of Ed McMahon, YOU ARE CORRECT SIR.
This is the case for most wealthy people. That's how they got their money in the first place, they weren't wasteful and lived well within their means. The people you see living in the high-dollar subdivision with two upper-end cars are strung out on payments. You'd be surprised how many doctors are just getting by on their 6 figure salaries.
Obviously they were international crime lords. This is how the government will see it.
If they correctly filed their taxes over the years, that wouldn't be "unexplained wealth"
Always interesting, thank you.
I believe that civil asset forfeiture is a plain language violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments. From the 4th: "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, ..." and from the 5th: "... nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."
Too bad our overlords don't care about the Constitution.
The courts get around this by making the actions against the money itself, and ignore the fact that they took it from an actual person.
It's idiotic.
I'm in total agreement with you Steve. The way it should be is for the LE Agency to investigate and to build a case against an individual. Once the case is complete then it moves to the filing of an affidavit for a warrant with the DA. Then, if approved, the warrant(s) are executed and so on. Due Process must be given to every person within the U.S. If there is no Due Process, then the investigation itself is criminal.
Details TBD, but BC (unlike US civil roadside forfeiture) will have a process for this. And I suspect that it will begin with a look at tax returns.
I hope you want a Judge to sign off on the Warrant BEFORE it is executed....otherwise it is just a Subpoena, and we know how corrupt some DA's can be!! Yes Judges can also be Corrupt, but it is not as likely.
@@Dragonstalon1001 Of course, approval being by the judge.
If the wealth comes from offshore sources where doing an investigation would be challenging or impossible (hostile or corrupt governments, war zones etc), then a UWO can have merit.
@@VC-Toronto There is no place for a UWO in the United States. If the cops and investigators cannot prove their case that someone obtained their money from a criminal source, then that person should not be subject to any punishment. That is how it should be. Otherwise, the taking of someone's money or possessions is defined as an armed robbery. The cops and investigators were armed... obvious threat of force with weapons.
This is why people have offshore bank accounts. I don't expect or feel the need to explain my wealth beyond saying '' I earned it ''. Put your money where they won't find it or at the very least make it extremely difficult for them to get their grubby little hands on it by keeping that money in a bank in a completely different country.
Money not safe anywhere, especially off shore
@@suzannakoizumi8605 Actually it is, also there are other methods such as safety deposit boxes or even storing your wealth in the form of gold or other high value goods. Some government official come's by your house and sees a few bars of metal lying on the shelf they probably won't think much of it. Checked the price of Rhodium lately? It's $465,000 per kg. Extremely easy to hide your money just by using your brain.
Why British MP,Jo Cox was murdered...started exposing the wrong people's offshore bank accounts, publishing the Pandora Papers! Innocent man in jail.
Even Swiss Banks are " helpless", nowadays
Digital currency on the way. There's no escape, they thought of everything
In Britain the government has to take you to court before they can confiscate anything, and the proceeds do not go a local agent, but go into the central government coffers. This is very different to Civil Asset Forfeiter in the US, where any local government agent can simply grab your cash at the side of the road.
I was going to say something similar. I know that Britain has used this power once, not sure that it is more than that.
In terms of paper trail - it isn't going to be down to the penny - but UK inheritance tax records plus income tax records plus land registry information will (for most people) get the right ballpark for current wealth.
The American situation seems unjust - tourists are particularly (I would have thought) at risk. Is it an insurable risk?
Can't judge the Canadian situation without more detail.
Also in Britain, debt collectors go to the doors of debtors with TV cameras and take their property.
Yes in the UK, debt collection is sometimes filmed for reality TV shows, but they can only collect a debt after the courts have issued a collection order. And yes if the police find you with more than £10,000 in cash upon you they can confiscated it, and you have to show that you have good reasons to have that much cash. But as long as you can show good reason, then the police have to return it to you, you don’t have to sue them to get your money back. The big difference between the US and the UK, Europe, and the majority of the Anglospear
Is that given how advanced the banking system is, there are very few reasons to pay with cash even on private deals, and the majority of business will not take more than £5,000 in cash for any payment. The days of paying for something with wads of readies is long gone, and very much something from the past. Even banks do not like you trying to pay in large amounts of cash, in fact cash is steadily going out of fashion.
@@markp6102 forced digital currency
It's everywher, Steve. Here in the UK I am buying a house. It's not a big house or luxurious. I am paying cash, they want to know where I got the money. When I told them, the lawyers wanted to know where that person got it. Luckily they had a paper trail showing they legally are entitled to what they have. It's supposed to prevent money laundering. It would seem to me that major criminal gangs would not be laundering cash using a little 2 bed bungalow in a remore corner of Wales. Go figure.
But major criminal gangs use a lot of that money to make sure they never get asked what you did. And they are major criminal gangs so if the money doesn't work they have other ways to stop the questions. You and the prior owner don' have that kind of clout so you make their job risk free light work, they can grill you without consequence.
You're right. One example is Russian oligarchs buying into Trump properties and golf courses and their buying a lot of property in London.
A small remote bungalow would make an excellent base of operations for a criminal group. I don't think you've thought this through as much as the banks have. Just remember, a banker can think like a criminal because they aren't much different.
Encouraging exceptions to laws seems rather dumb though.
If I go to the bank and I forgot my identification then sure, I can be annoyed by that, but on the other hand it's that same system that keeps things a bit more secure for everyone.
Well, seems like the banks have "helped guide legislation" to ensure they don't miss out on the loan interest and other charges.
Thanks for sharing who would have ever imagined? It seems like we are going through something up North. Removing rights left right and center
In Thailand this concept of unexplained wealth is frequently used to seize funds and property. This usually is used against politicians or government employees, but recent seizures of civilians has occurred.
My country of Canada is the only place I know where students & homemakers who declare an income of only $20,000 a year often own houses in Vancouver valued at $3+ million. The underground economy of untaxed income is very much alive and well. The rampant gangland lifestyle here also often has 20 year old kids with no jobs driving $100,000 cars. Yet few people do much about this.
good, leave it that way.
Tbh that's probably the Chinese elite and their families.
"Hong Couver". Lots and lots of Chinese cash-- crazy stuff. TO is Chinese families who've supported the community for decades. It's more of a west coast issue centered in Vancouver sadly and rife with HongKong crime syndicates
That may be true but giving the government more power is never correct solution that's been proven time and time again.
A lot of students in V'couver have millionaire parents backing up the life.
You about knocked me out of my chair with the "mansion and a yacht" line!!! You should be a Toontown lawyer....
Dude. I think I remember a video on this channel where this was used in California against the owner of a LEGAL Marijuana store. Cops would stop the armored truck on the way to the bank and seize the cash, then turn it over to the Feds. Just another example of California being totally messed up.
10 percent for the big guy
I guess the explanation that you were picking weeds and selling them for $200 an ounce to brain damaged individuals wasn't a good enough explanation.
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You can sue for it back if it's legal
I'd say this would be perfect to go after politicians with. I live in BC. Unfortunately, Canada has a federal police force (some urban areas have provincial-city police). The federal storm troopers would never turn on politicians.
I've known people who travel around the country to buy collectibles and have large amounts of cash to pay for them because
the people don't trust checks or want to pay the fees for other methods. I've seen comic books sold at comic con for $35K in cash.
Now if you're the government, you have access to all the tax records so if someone pays for a mansion but has declared no where near
enough income, then sure, investigate. The idea of simply taking the money and not going through due process is nuts.
If you have to sue them then they should have to pay your attorney fees and interest on the money. This is horrible
In Canada they do have to pay for court plus you can get your lawyer fees if you win buy showing you had a strong case that they were wrong and most lawyers will jump on it because they can bill the government more. I just went through this with I.C.B.C they are a government auto insurance company in B.C
@@robertlondon7699 What about lost interest, wilful infliction of emotional harm and any further losses incurred?
@@GUNNYCANUCK intrest you can recoup if it's over a period of time can be awarded but in Canada emotional suffering is something that you can get but they have a cap on it and they make you jump through hoops to be awarded it
@@robertlondon7699 That's the so-called "English rule" where the loser pays the winner's court fees. In the "Land of the Free" (cough), it's the American rule where no such rule exists. Getting attorney fees is really hard.
@@robertlondon7699 Thanks for the reply Robert!
In British Columbia, the government is really keeping control over how money flows through the province. For example if you were to sell a used vehicle privately, when transferring ownership, the government has control over the cost of the used vehicle. So instead of selling your old car for $2000+tax, the cost plus tax on the vehicle is based on what THEIR evaluation of it's value is.
Same in Quebec
Governments only truly care about collecting taxes. government 'services' are just a charade.
Jesus.
Wife looked at me when I told her today’s Subject and said “You need to watch which TH-cam Channels you’re Watching”. 😬 I told her this already happens in US.
As a BC resident the hilarious thing is the largest money laundering method used in BC is government run casinos.
My wealth I made years ago was explained years ago via "The Sunshine List" we have here. Where ordinairy people can see your salary if you work in the public sector
I remember the CRA asking me about how I obtained it, I pointed towards my job and the list.
Got audited by my own father, and he was just saying what a waste of time and resources lol.
Citizen How were you able to afford that Minnesota Timberwolves T-shirt and where did you get it? We now want that shirt off your back! What a wonderful world it is!
TBH, I'm not sure why it's so focused on cash other than that the police want to keep it. Other than that other assets are harder to liquidate.
No one would consider a T wolves shirt a sign of wealth. Same with any MN sport franchise, as they are not interested in winning or their fans. They are only interested in making money via threats of moving the franchise, lest the get a new tax payer subsidized stadium... Owning a MN jersey or similar is a sign of stupidity though.
@@SmallSpoonBrigade yep...that's exactly how thieves think, get the easiest stuff like cash and drugs first.
@@kilobravo2373 HEY!...YOU TAKE THOSE SLANDEROUS FACTS BACK!😡...IMMEDIATELY...
I live in Vancouver but don't have enough money to worry about this new law. However, it is still very troublesome and there is a good chance it will be applied beyond its intended gang control purpose. What next?
We already have civil asset forfeiture laws in BC and even people's cars have been taken and auctioned lol
Of course piggies will take free money with no consequences
Not only gang control purpose, tax evasion also.
It's intended purpose is not to control gangs. That's the intended excuse.
And it wont realy solve things. Basicaly the criminals will simply store their millions of $ somewhere and quit british columbia or canada as a whole to go buy their mansion and luxury cars
Just before the time to file taxes. They gonna buy a ticket to Dubai or Signapour or even russia. And live like multi millionaire life there
Do you have a house?
Where did you get the money to buy it?
I feel like they're also doing it with the intention to have all who don't have banks to save or like to use card. To push them to start putting into banks.
If people are taking your money without your permission, that's called stealing. And even if it's the government, the average person should have the right to take any and all actions to stop that person or persons from stealing their possessions, money or otherwise.
I love the ship analogy in the end, nodding to the Admiralty origins of all this "policy" being interpreted as "Law" nonsense. I Love This Channel.
I know i should comment on the vid, but I missed a bunch because I was drooling at your car collection. Especially that #71. Oh man!!!!
This kind if law was recently introduced in the UK to try and deal with the unbelievable amount of corruption money that ends up in London. If I recall correctly the first tike it was used was on the wife of some foreign official who was somehow spending multiple times her husband's salary on shopping sprees.
Isn’t that called credit card debt😊
Unlike civil asset forfeiture, these UWO's in the UK at least have to be authorised by a judge, which means there must be at least some evidence.
It's still guaranteed to be abused by the authorities.
Making sure that government officials are NOT corrupt is literally the only good use of something like this. But that's exactly the opposite of what would happen.
@@GirlofNicky
_credit card_
Nope, it was all cash money.
Yeah great idea, that law that ignores due process will never be used against you and you have no recourse... never! smh
In the US if this law applied to politicians, it might be of some use.
What?? You expect the 🐑 🐑 to grow some balls and take back power from their masters?? 😂😂
Leave politicians ALONE!....don't they have it bad ENOUGH!...trying to pretend to represent the voters?!😵
@@jpnewman1688 Are you trying to imply that you are not a sheep? What are you doing to take back power?
@Robert by join them. Robb the politicians and they can't fire you cause you bringing in so so much money for the worst politicians.
Can't beat them, join them.
At some point we have to hit a breaking point (rock bottom), where the sheep finally decide ENOUGH, and force our government to serve us and not the crazy rich.
As a BC Canadian citizen I can say this happens so much !! Me an my wife had saved up 35 grand to buy rebuilt 1983 Chevrolet pick up truck. We had to drive 4 hours to pick it up, anyways on the way we where pulled over an the officer took are 35 grand cash an we never seen it again
I hope youve learned to not talk to police that day! You should never answer any questions about anything EVER without a lawyer present
I see someone posted the notion that such laws will change only when a LEO gets killed in the process of stealing, er, seizing. I have to believe this must have already happened somewhere. And I can only report that, were I on the jury where the facts came in that the LEO was taking something without a warrant or probable cause, or, worse, without identifying himself, and got blasted, the citizen so infringed is gonna walk. I also imagine this roadside interaction: "Are you carrying a large sum of money?" "Why? Are you soliciting a bribe?"
The scenario you bring forth is exactly why canada has decided to end gun sales and begin confiscation of guns. Canada has become an evil socialist enterprise. USA is not far behind.
@Anne and Larry Brunelle The Court will disallow you to use that as a defense or even refer to the concept. Hell, Judges toss out jury verdicts now because they weren't what the judge wanted, finding some reason to do that. And I can see you haven't been on a US jury lately where the Judge instructs you to which specific points you are deciding, what their interpretation of that law is, and that you cannot allow anything else to enter into the decision. So in effect, you aren't deciding anything which wasn't'[t already clear.
If you're ever on a Jury in the US vote your conscience, and when asked about it all you say is "I've made my decision based on what I saw and heard in the Courtroom and I'm not changing it". And you say nothing else- NOTHING. No matter even if the Judge questions you, no matter any arguments they make otherwise. The moment you exceed that phrase they've got you. As long as you stick exactly with it, they have to leave you alone and accept your vote.
I remember an article by a young man studying accounting. He wound up doing the books for a local gang, kind of a franchise I suppose. What he found was, that even the bosses in the local group, earned less than minimum wage, mostly lived in the projects with relatives, and didn't have cars, let alone the fancy ones. So, controlling gangs is a lie, and they know it.
If members would make more money going legit, why be in the gang, where it's high risk, reward? Or at least join/merge with a more profitable gang? Not from those neighborhoods, so no experience with it beyond what's in the media.
@@benwagner5089 Because when you're 15, it's lots of cash. When you're 35, it ain't, but you're in too deep.
Bingo, it's got fuck all to do with fighting crime, and everything to do with giving government officials the power to STEAL people's property for themselves/their department. Just like Taxes.
I could of be a c appa at 15? Ma ma mia!
When you got Free housing and food stamps and everything you make is a under the table
Lol, Windsor is south of Detroit. Not many know that. Good info. Thanks
Ok, for the travellers; how many times when going for a driven excursion, out of province/state, where you spot an interesting looking little roadside shop so you stop? They don’t take debit or credit, cash only?
It’s happened to me lots, especially in tourism type towns.
So when I travel prior to starting my trip, I go to the bank and withdraw cash.
I live in the middle of Canada in Winnipeg. But even a road trip to Ontario or BC , I take cash!
Then consider the out of country travel. You go to a bank and convert your money to the currency of the country you’re visiting. So I’d get stopped in the US and because I have $10k(?) in American cash, I’m automatically a drug dealer? Having all my money stolen by cops?
This is just 1 of a few reasons that I do not visit your great country, because your law enforcement is a blemish on your country.
It's not just law enforcement. Most of the people who are most in favor of our 2nd Amendment are also those who support the actions taken by law enforcement. This includes DAs, judges, etc...Our entire system needs purging.
I had a US customs incursion at Pt. huron coming back from Canada with 4 bottles of ketchup that caused a secondary search, they opened my laptop bag which contained a laptop , 2 hard drives, some SD cards and a small camera and a ziplock bag containing a mixture of small bills (change from coffee shops that I used for tips or to pay for coffee while using their wifi while traveling). Maybe $150 bucks worth in $1, 5s 10s, 5 hours later after all my data was downloaded off every device I had and my car throughly searched , every thing was returned and I was free to go. Lesson learned don't bring ketchup back from Canada. .
I had secondary at the airport with one lemon in my suitcase. Though it did not take that much time for search. I also had my trunk searched having peaches at Nevada-California border years ago. Driving from Nevada, had to through them away, though peaches were grown in California and bought in Vegas supermarket :). Better not carry food into US
It's not safe to travel with electronic devices through US airports or border crossings anymore. There's no telling what they will do with your data. They may even place trackers on your device without your knowledge.
The folks at CBP are draconian as hell. As a Canadian who crossed back and forth as a trucker, I was very careful with US customs . Most American drivers I talked to told me they never felt as violated as dealing with US Customs. Canada Customs was fine.....they were reasonable and professional
Canadian bar associations strongly advise lawyers not to carry work laptops and phones across the US border (and at least some law firms plain prohibit it for their employees). The issue is liability if client information is leaked during border check
Thank jeff sessions bringing that back was his first order of business
Ben hiding behind Low Flying Owls from Low Flying Owls, Steve's RHS
I live in Vancouver b.c. we are fighting a losing battle against criminal organizations. Government policy has also made the situation worse. With out doubt innocent people will unfortunately be caught in this. But something has to be done, I'm not saying that this is the answer, but rather drastic measures need to be taken. Property was being used to launder money, houses are being bought with cash, way above asking price. This was common place.
Thanks for this heads-up, Steve... I've passed this on to my "wealthy" BC cousins! But this isn't just a threat to the rich: all citizens can soon be victimized by hazy Canadian CF rules. Confiscating wealth, under the guise of civil protection, is too tempting to overzealous "tough-on-crime" politicos on both sides of the border.
Oh, this won’t be used on wealthy people. They fight back. They have connections. It’s a tax on being too poor to fight back. It’s straight up sheriff of Nottingham stuff.
This is not a big threat to the rich. They have the funds to defend themselves. This is a threat to independent folks struggling to earn a living, and work side gigs while holding down a shit job. The home mechanic rebuilding and selling the occasional car on the side, or selling extra baked goods to your neighbours for extra cash. Hard working industrious low income earners can appear to have "unexplainable" wealth. However when it is seized, they have no recourse to recover the lost wealth. This is why it is so important to record and report income honestly, even when you are reporting to a government lead by a political party and or agenda that you didn't vote for or agree with.
There are a bunch of politicians here in the USA that have tons of “unexplained wealth.”
Pelosi
From a prime minister like Trudeau this doesn't surprise me at all.
If you've been to BC, you'll know what groups are being targeted with this law.
(Try to buy a home in Vancouver for the last 20 years)
You meant the 🐑 🐑 that continue giving power to narcissists/sociopaths/psychopaths to be their masters?? 😂😂
I thought a lot of that was Chinese nationals buying up properties in various cities across the US and Canada? I know they have been doing that a lot in places like New York City and San Francisco. Maybe they’ll demand that they explain where they got their money in China and confiscate their properties if they can’t!
It's going to applied to everyone not just "targeted groups" this government has repeatedly lied and circumvented due process on a regular basis.
There is an inside joke within the Communist Chinese Government that roughly translated goes something like this:
"The money flows from Beijing to the _Trudeau Foundation_ like the Yangtze River"
The longer version goes on to say "to water the crop of little potatoes"
Imagine if Canada were a free country, such a beautiful place to visit
Lol
It looks like a bunch of other countries...
Canada is orderly, grey, clean, requires vaccinations, you can't afford a home, all healthcare and liquor is run by the government and you pledge allegiance to the supreme leader.
North Korea.
Canada is pretty free, we don't have to sell our homes to pay hospital bills either. That's kind of nice.
@@yomomasonthecrackrock5012 In the US you don't have to pay for something you're never gonna get, either.
They should then go after all politicians because they are all millionaires, and there money is all from unknown sources.... and they make there money by making these laws!
"British Columbia introduces new slippery slope - that will definitely not result in a surprised pikachu face meme"
Basically, you are totally allowed to profit from misery, but only if fill out the proper paperwork.
NSW (Australia) have that law. Cash, property, business etc is not exempt if you can’t provide a reason for owning or attaining it.
This has been in place for years. I personally know a couple of guys who have a legal paying job as a side hustle to try and prevent the police from seizing their houses etc when they get arrested.
Thanks for the Minnesota t-wolves shirt
Seems like the politicians are most guilty of unexplained wealth.
These stories make my blood boil
Canadian law is going to be a bit difference, but I have no idea how this was ever legal in the US. It's pretty blatantly a violation of the constitution and due process rights of the individuals. I would assume that Canada, as well as most other modern free nations, would have some equivalent to say that the government can't just take people's properties without some sort of process and/or payment.
Once the government 'appropriates ' your property...you'll be out in the cold...that 'll cool that boiling blood...
@@SmallSpoonBrigade local governments can pass what laws they want and the Supreme Court won't just rule on them. There has to be someone sue the state for the Supreme Court to hear that case. Same with the may issue gun licenses in New York and California for example
@@SmallSpoonBrigade it's kinda messed up that the local government will do what they want and not follow the constitution. We the people should be doing something about it I suppose
They might as well say this: Hey armed robbers! Do you want to commit armed robbery and not go to prison? Become a cop.
'Join us, we'll make you above the law made for the sheep'.
It has been like this for over 10 years in Canada. I had hundreds of thousands seized from me in 2012 and never got anything back.
There are a lot of properties in London that are owned by offshore companies which have a very murky ownership chain, there should be a way that the true owner of a property should be found out. Something needs to be done to combat these 'offshore' companies, currently we have a member of the House of Lords who appears to have gained £30mil from a company that her family appears to own (more murky details) that she pushed the UK Gov to give PPE contracts to.
The burden should be on the
government to prove it, not
assume guilt and act on those
assumptions. If international
machinations make that difficult,
tough s***
@@howieBMTYAGB Not really, if we as a country decide that in order to own property in our country we demand that you tell us who owns it, that is up to us. If you don't like letting a country know who owns a property you are welcome to bugger off to another country and buy property there.
But you pay more SDLT if you buy with a company rather than as an individual, so the government gets its' extra cash and happily looks the other way. Far as I'm aware UK's version of Unexplained Wealth Orders have only ever been successfully prosecuted once, and the person in question is appealing. So it's kinda a lame duck law that costs a fortune to prosecute because the cases are so complex and the people in question can use their vast wealth to buy the best lawyers to protect them.
Those properties are always owned by LLCs so the rich don’t have to declare the money that buys them. They just receive the benefit of use. There doesn’t seem to be any desire to tax that income. Just the little guys because its easier.
NFT’s and blockchain technology can solve the issue of tracing home owners.
How can the government require banks to report deposits to your account with out a warrant. The Fourth Amendment states that no one can search possessions and property without good reason or a warrant.
They have a good reason...the citizens have trillions in wealth that THE GOVERNMENT wants to spend!....now stand on your head and lessee just what possibly illegal booty falls from those pockets!😡
The IRS now gets the info on any account with over $600.00. So we are past that point.
They slipped it into the stimulus bill in the states that the banks have to report to the irs any deposits or withdrawals into accounts of $600 + now…so lol….the $10,000 limit wasn’t so bad
History shows that's how revolutions start.
When you said mansion and a yacht I started laughing I knew where you were going. 😂
Civil forfeiture is a thing in Canada. However, they need to show a direct link to a criminal enterprise. It isn't used very often. Here in Toronto the Hells Angels had their clubhouse seized under civil forfeiture.
Need to show a direct link, huh? What about when they took money from the truckers and shut down bank accounts? Where’s the crime?
@@BigLeagueDrew they froze bank accounts, big difference.
@@OlivierCaron the government used the excuse that they were in the process of an intersection to seize the assets.
@@OlivierCaron There is not much difference if you cannot pay your bills. They will freeze your account very quickly, but like any government they move at a pace that makes a tortoise look like it is setting world speed record when unfreezing the account.
Sounds like a government press release. It's not true. In Canada, they only need to show a direct link if you challenge it. If they take all your money and you can't afford a lawyer, they don't need to show a direct link to anything, they just take your money and then threaten to charge you with something if you don't sign it over. It is used on an almost daily basis, but most people can't afford a lawyer to fight it.
I've been watching you for about a year now.. Were close in age, I'm a year older. We have quite the similar educations. I'm quite the world traveler since I have duel citizenship with America and Italia a right from birth (the Italian one. Was born in America)... I don't believe I've seen you this direct about how FOS the American Gov is with the civil forfeiture raping of some of it's people. You summed it up about "you being one who elects them then they higher people that come back on you" perfectly said. Believe it or not, this is the very thing that people like me and millions of others talk about and discuss as to why the Gov needs to be overthrown and corrected as to the original meaning by the men who fought for 7years to make this country. They are turning over in their graves knowing this regime of meat heads have bastardized their meaning and intentions. This was a very good video, you shined for sure.
I wish the supreme court would make it so that civil asset forfeiture only applied to ABANDONED money/items, like the abandoned ships. If you know who possesses it, use the criminal process.
The same Sup. Ct. that overturned Roe v Wade? Somehow I doubt it. They are obsessed with 'states rights' and as such probably have other ideas.
i live in Canada and have lived in BC and i can tell u without fear of contradiction that if any part of this is put into effect not only will it morph into a CANADA wide problem , because this is being floated by a province but as sure as snowfall it will become law CANADA wide this is being put up by a premier but is being backed by a federal entity for sure as an tester to get their foot in the door
It's already a not-law weapon our federal government can use with a simple wave of either the emergency's act, or the not withstanding clause which lets them wipe their ass with our worthless charter. They used it to seize cash, bank accounts, vehicles, businesses, houses, and children from protestors and supporters of the trucker protests.
Alberta and Quebec will resist this.
lololol, that's why Trudeau is banning your guns. No handguns & now your semiautomatic weapons are going kapoot
Civil asset forfeiture is the one thing aside from my family that would literally push me over the edge right then and there.
I see state mandated anger management therapy for you....
@@raylopez99 this gov would do that to every citizen if they knew they didn't have weapons
@@2511jeremy Ding ding... Canada, no one is packin a weapon. Unless you're a criminal...
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Should be used against Hunter and the big guy
Unexplained wealth should be a tool to prevent the proceeds of crime from being a benefit to victimizing people. Instead of police departments getting the cash which creates a perverse incentive, it should go into a fund for the victims of crime to be made whole, recieve counselling, etc. They have a system like that in Australia and I thought that was a wise thing when I heard about it while watching Crownies and then the spin off Janet King
Seizure should ONLY follow a successful prosecution for criminal activity, and only if it can also be proven that the assets are linked to that crime.
@@MonkeyJedi99 No, unexplained wealth does make sense in the situations that are reasonable, sometimes it's not possible to prosecute a foreign national war criminal or embezzler because the information and witnesses aren't available. The perverse incentives are the problem, if you truly take proceeds of crime from criminals and then put that into a fund for the victims of crime than I think that's ok. It's the reasonableness of the whole enterprise and that's why it's so disgusting as is. Also the way Canada does it doesn't neccesarilly happen when cops search somebody and find money, it's when known criminals have massive amoutns of unexplained wealth and when they can't account for it then it's confiscated. That's not an overreach, prosecutions should only happen when prosecutors are confident in conviction so when that isn't the case but criminals are incredibly wealthy through proceeds of crime it's ok for the government to confiscate that.
@@bencheevers6693 I think MonkeyJedi is talking about normal people being treated as criminals and their property as assets gained in a crime, without ever being charged or convicted of a crime.
The funds should be seized after the court has already declared them guilty, not before; freezing the assets during court proceedings I can understand though, in case they try to offload it or hide it elsewhere.
@@bencheevers6693 If they haven't been convicted of a crime they aren't criminals. If a crime occurs that the government can't prosecute due to lack of evidence them's the breaks. The province says they want to use this to go after gang leaders, so already it's not about people committing crimes in foreign countries, the crimes are happening squarely in the government's jurisdiction.
Even if we agreed that this tool was allowable for gang members as stated, that's invariably not how these types of powers are used. They might use it against a couple big gang leaders for the press but based on the history of civil asset forfeiture, tax audits, etc, going after the big fish is too difficult and expensive because they fight back, they'll use it against small business owners or people with their savings outside retirement accounts, probably often seizing little enough money that fighting to get it back would cost more than the money stolen.
Where did you get your wealth then, Ben Cheevers? Sorry, I don't believe you. Go ahead and surrender your wealth to the local authorities until you can prove the origin.