Funding for Freedom Convoy Was Mostly Canadian, Shows Emergencies Act Commission Report
The Public Order Emergency Commission released a report Thursday examining the finances of the Freedom Convoy and it indicates that most of the fundraised money came from within Canada and that most of it never made it to protesters.
In a presentation given on the report during the public hearing, a table showed the foreign and domestic funding for each of the different methods used by the protesters to amass funds.
The table indicates that 86 percent of donors to the GoFundMe crowdsourcing campaign were Canadians, and that percentage rose to 89 percent when considering the value of donations.
That campaign had gathered over $10 million before it was shut down. GoFundMe executives had concerns about the velocity of the campaign and the respect for its terms of services….