Canada is becoming more and more totalitarian by the day

In free constitutional countries one important fundamental constitutional right is that a person cannot be punished for an action that was not illegal at the time when the action was made. This same human right is also included in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (article 11).

In other words, if a government makes a previously-legal action illegal, it cannot retroactively punish someone for having done that action when it was still legal. (There are, obviously, many reasons for this principle, one of the most significant ones being that it stops the government from persecuting an individual by inventing new laws and retroactively punishing that person for "breaking" those laws, even though those actions were not illegal at the time.)

Apparently this human right is not in effect in Canada.

The government of Canada has frozen the bank accounts of many people who donated small sums of money to the so-called Freedom Convoy. In the vast majority of cases said protest had not been declared illegal, so there was nothing illegal about the protest nor about donating money to it.

Many of the people whose bank accounts have been frozen are at the moment of writing this suffering a great deal because of it, because they just don't have any money to live. This is arguably a cruel and unusual punishment. (After all, what sense does it make to freeze the account of such a person? What sense does it make to effectively stop that person from getting any money? For what purpose? The only possible reason is some kind of punishment and revenge.)

What the Canadian government is doing is completely inhumane, cruel and totalitarian. It's not only a violation of fundamental human rights to punish someone for an action that was not illegal at the time the action was done, but denying that person from all livelihood is an unusually cruel and inhumane punishment. It may be something that oppressive totalitarian dictatorships do, not something a supposedly free constitutional country does.

Making the protest itself illegal counts too. Sure, consider blocking traffic illegal, that's fine, and that has been criminalized since forever. But when you start declaring a protest itself illegal, that crosses a line. A line from constitutionalism and human rights to oppressive totalitarianism.