Reads: What Canada Couldn't Freeze: Freeland, the Rhodes Trust, and the Money the State Couldn't Reach
Bitcoin Well Podcast
- Published
- September 20, 2026
- Duration
- 21:57
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- Sep 20, 2026
Discusses society, culture.
Summary
In February 2022, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's banks they could freeze accounts without a judge, and they froze 257 of them. Two courts have since ruled it unconstitutional. The Rhodes Trust, founded by Cecil Rhodes as (in his own words) a secret society to place its people where the levers are, made her CEO anyway. Zach reads his essay on what the sta…
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In February 2022, Chrystia Freeland told Canada's banks they could freeze accounts without a judge, and they froze 257 of them. Two courts have since ruled it unconstitutional. The Rhodes Trust, founded by Cecil Rhodes as (in his own words) a secret society to place its people where the levers are, made her CEO anyway. Zach reads his essay on what the state could reach and what it couldn't: the bank accounts it took in hours, the 14.6 Bitcoin hand-delivered to truckers in envelopes with handwrit
Themes
- society
- culture