The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada appeared on national television and was asked who the economic measures, in other words freezing assets, would apply to. He was quoted as saying, “If you are [part] of a pro-Trump [organization]... you ought to be worried”. This seems to go beyond the stated intentions, and comes awfully close to the government signalling that it was willing to target political opponents.
Can you clarify whether Minister Lametti went too far in his remarks and what sort of scope the financial measures of the February 14 order in council had in terms of who should have been captured by those asset freezes?