88% of Freedom Convoy Donations Came From Canada Despite Claims of Canadian Feds.

On Thursday, a House committee meeting to evaluate the finances behind the weeks-long cross-country protest contested the federal government’s claim that the Freedom Convoy was primarily foreign-funded. The Public Safety Committee hearing was acrimonious at times, with some MPs criticizing GoFundMe for originally agreeing to carry the convoy’s campaign, and later GiveSendGo for continuing to pursue it despite legal action. According to figures supplied by GoFundMe’s president, the government’s assertion that the trucker-led movement against COVID-19 limitations was a “primarily foreign-funded, targeted, and organized attack” on Canada’s democracy, as stated by Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, was refuted. “According to our data, 88 percent of contributed donations came from Canada, and 86 percent of donors came from Canada,” Juan Benitez added. Benitez also stated that his company has capabilities to detect nefarious activity related to donations, but that this…

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