The Freedom Convoy has the Canadian capital of Ottawa under total siege, while border crossings with America have been snarled in separate blockades. Canadian officials are surprised to learn where most of the money to support the truckers comes from.
Freedom Convoy funding
Canadian officials are getting really nervous, ever since they noticed that the Freedom Convoy fundraising efforts quickly approached $10 million in donations. It’s clear from the huge number of supporters that people are fed up with heavy-handed government mandates. What Canadians weren’t expecting is that “donations appear to be pouring in from south of the border.”
Justin Trudeau is ready to start calling it “intervention” in their political affairs. “When you have this kind of intervention from one country to another, you start to see the transnational networks that compose the modern far right,” Alexander Ross, an adjunct professor at Portland State University observes.
As soon as the Canadian Freedom Convoy got $8 million U.S. dollars in their GoFundMe account, the platform pulled their plug. After initially threatening to give the money away to other causes, they decided to simply refund it.
Donors quickly turned it back around and ran it through GiveSendGo and it’s right back to former levels. The Canadian government is going spastic. As America preps for it’s NFL Super Bowl, truckers are assembling in California. They’re hoping to pull into D.C. just in time to drown out Joe Biden’s State of Disunion speech with air horns.
What really has liberal Canadian officials freaking out is the fact that “the U.S. may actually outnumber donations from Canadians.” Americans told the press “they are donating because they are finding common cause with the Canadian truckers.” Americans are fully behind the Freedom Convoy.
Dory Hill of Michigan notes, “I really believe in what they’re doing. I think the countries have all got to start working together. Freedom is important to all of us.” Charlie Hardage, the President of the Republican Club of Lakeland, Florida, “told CTV News he authorized a $300 donation from his group.” He did it because “a lot of people are concerned about vaccine mandates or other mandates.”
Wanting freedom back
Ms. Hill “is unvaccinated and a Republican” but not “very politically active.” When she heard about the convoy, she felt compelled to send them $50 bucks. “I want them to let people of every country, whether prime minister, president, whoever, know that we’re serious about wanting freedom back.”
When CTV news “sampled some 6,500 donations over a 12-hour period coming onto GiveSendGo,” they totaled up more than $622,000 and a third of them were made anonymously. From the rest, “CTV News counted those who declared their location or made it clear what country they were from.” Of those, “Canadian donations accounted for about 36 per cent of the money gained.”
Evidence the fight for freedom is going global comes from donations to the Canadian convoy in small amounts “from people who said they were in the U.K., Germany, Australia and Hong Kong, with donations coming from as far away as Latvia and Japan.”
Protest parades are springing up around the world as well. In Australia, New Zealand, France, Belgium and other spots. The one in Paris was reportedly tear gassed by police on Saturday, February 12.
It was clear from the accounting done by the Canadian news outlet that “dwarfing them all were donations from those who said they were in the United States — about 52 per cent of identifiable donations.” Super Sunday is about to take on a whole new meaning this year.
Already, “right-wing politicians and media figures have promoted the convoy, and also threatened an investigation into funding platform GoFundMe for refunding most of its donations.” The thing that really terrifies the New World Order is that this world-wide protest is “an organic groundswell from the people.” Canadian truckers “are standing up not just for the freedom of Canadians, but for the freedom of Americans,” Senator Ted Cruz announced recently.
