{"id":485710,"date":"2026-02-19T17:01:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485710\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T17:01:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T17:01:14","slug":"champagne-unveils-ottawas-follow-the-money-plan-to-tackle-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485710\/","title":{"rendered":"Champagne unveils Ottawa&#8217;s &#8216;follow the money&#8217; plan to tackle extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government is bringing law enforcement and financial institutions together in a bid to fight extortion operations targeting Canadian businesses and households.<\/p>\n<p>Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is in Mississauga, Ont., today to announce a suite of new initiatives he says will make it easier for police to \u201cfollow the money\u201d and disrupt criminal networks.<\/p>\n<p>Canada\u2019s financial intelligence agency Fintrac will put new resources behind tackling extortion and will share data with financial institutions to help them flag suspicious transactions.<\/p>\n<p>Champagne says organized crime is making Canadians anxious in their own neighbourhoods and afraid to start up small businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government convened a pair of summits in Brampton, Ont., and Surrey, B.C., earlier this year and in late 2025 to hear about how threats of violence are affecting communities.<\/p>\n<p>The Liberals say they plan to table legislation by the spring to set up a Financial Crimes Agency first proposed last fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is bringing law enforcement and financial institutions together in a bid to fight extortion operations&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-485710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}