# Source note — Tamara Lich / surveillance bills / Convoy data / “spy plane” reel

Date checked: 2026-07-21

Lead URL: `https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1cJof1W5k2/?mibextid=wwXIfr`

Resolved Facebook reel: `https://www.facebook.com/reel/868582569653212`

Uploader: FreedomCalendar.net

## Video capture
- Reel ID: `868582569653212`
- Title/metadata: “Tamara Lich: Censorship, surveillance and military involvement during the freedom convoy.”
- Duration: about 99 seconds.
- MP4 was downloaded locally and transcribed. The public package includes metadata, transcript, thumbnail and contact sheet; the MP4 is not hosted.

## Transcript claim checked
Tamara Lich says: censorship/surveillance bills are frightening; the government is already doing similar things; Convoy-related frozen-bank-account data was collected and shared; a “King Air spy plane” flew over Ottawa; and military equipment could ping/scrape phones, photos, emails and texts without warrants.

## Evidence anchors checked
- Public Order Emergency Commission final report and Volumes 2–3.
- CBC and Global reporting on military/CAF role, support and legal advice during the convoy response.
- CBC reporting on the Federal Court of Appeal Emergencies Act ruling.
- Prior PBC Emergencies Act source package.
- Canada.ca / Library of Parliament / civil-liberties and privacy group pages on Bill C-2 and related lawful-access concerns.
- Existing PBC six-digital-bills source-check.

## Evidence labels
- Confirmed: the Emergencies Act response included financial measures, asset freezing and reporting obligations.
- Confirmed: FINTRAC and other agencies were part of the wider federal information/intelligence ecosystem; POEC discusses limits on FINTRAC’s own powers and disclosure rules.
- Confirmed: DND/CAF had convoy-related involvement; POEC describes it as peripheral, administrative/logistical support and contingency planning, not public-order deployment.
- Confirmed: civil-liberties groups and privacy experts have raised serious concerns about Bill C-2 / lawful-access surveillance powers.
- Not proven in this pass: that a King Air aircraft scraped protesters’ phones, emails, texts and photos, or that such data was collected without warrants. The reel states this as a claim, but the official/public source trail checked here did not confirm the technical allegation.

## Editorial boundary
Publish as a civil-liberties warning with careful proof labels. Do not present phone-scraping as established fact. Do not relitigate the whole convoy trial; link to the existing PBC Emergencies Act and digital-bills pieces.