When we provided the entities to the financial institutions and the institutions started to freeze accounts, we did reach out to some entities to see if they had left the area—for example, Ottawa—and some comments we received were “We're not going to go back. We're back home. Please unfreeze our accounts.” Just to do this discouraged people from coming back, because they didn't want their accounts frozen. Actually, some people left, being afraid that their accounts were going to be frozen.
On March 7th, 2022. See this statement in context.