Never Under-Estimate the Power of Spite (the Canada Edition)

Bullying projects weakness:

“Were there any large donors that would have stuck out, that would have raised red flags in terms of perhaps trying to influence the outcome of this protest?” Conservative MP Ed Fast asked during the testimony. 

“We did not discover that, no,” said Benitez. “As we reviewed the donations we did not identify significant donations or patterns that were there.”

GoFundMe’s general counsel, Kim Wilford, also confirmed that the largest donation was $30,000 and came from Canada. ...

(Sidebar: liberals think that Canadians are children. They cannot fathom a domestic movement.) 

Despite the Liberal government treating convoy donations as terrorist financing and money laundering, a chief RCMP official stated that the federal policing force saw no evidence of terrorist involvement in the convoy’s funding.  ...

“Our records show 88% of donated funds originated in Canada and 86% of donors were from Canada,” GoFundMe president Juan Benitez told the Commons public safety committee on Mar. 3.

GiveSendGo executives also said that 63% of the funds donated to their platform were from Canada.  ...

According to MacKillop, the funds came from the pockets of Canadians who were fed up with COVID-19 measures. 

“It was their own money. It wasn’t cash that funded terrorism or was in any way money laundering,” MacKillop told the Commons finance committee on Feb. 24.

“These were people who supported the cause before it was declared illegal. There were people around the world who were fed up with Covid and were upset and saw the demonstrations. I believe they just wanted to support the cause.” ...

In another testimony before the Commons public safety committee on Feb. 10, MacKillop told MPs that there were no signs that what was happening in Ottawa was a form of ideologically motivated violent extremism.

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The City of Calgary has essentially made it illegal to engage in protest of the government without a permit.

They state you can’t even protest on a sidewalk or a public park. @SydFizzard pic.twitter.com/BlbkZuvGc4

— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) March 19, 2022

 

Muscovians are allowed to protest.

Just saying.