Ontario court freezes millions in trucker Freedom Convoy's crowdfunding account
The convoy's GiveSendGo had reached $8.4 million as of Thursday



A court in Ontario froze access to the millions of dollars in the GiveSendGo account of the Canadian "Freedom Convoy" on Thursday.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office said in a statement that the province's attorney general brought an application in the Superior Court of Justice for an order "prohibiting any person from disposing of, or otherwise dealing with, in any manner whatsoever, any and all monetary donations made through the Freedom Convoy 2022 and Adopt-a-Trucker campaign pages on the GiveSendGo online fundraising platform."

"This afternoon, the order was issued. It binds any and all parties with possession or control over these donations," Ford's office added.



The account with GiveSendGo, which describes itself as a Christian crowdfunding site, had raised $8.4 million as of Thursday. The convoy had previously raised more than $10 million with GoFundMe until the platform shut it down last week at the request of Canadian officials and refunded the money.



"Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo," a spokesperson for the company told Fox News Digital. "All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign."



Ford said Wednesday that he had spoken with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about what he described as "the ongoing occupations in Ottawa and Windsor."

"We will continue working together to support our police forces as they manage these situations. We both agreed this must come to an end," he tweeted.



Truckers have blocked the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, for days, snarling traffic on the busiest artery along the U.S.-Canada border in protest of the country's vaccine mandates. Truckers also continue to demonstrate in Ottawa, the Canadian capital.



GiveSendGo CFO Jacob Wells previously told Fox New Digital he had not been contacted by Canadian authorities directly regarding the new crowdfunding campaign on his platform. He pointed out that the campaign was created by the organization Freedom 2022 Human Rights, which is a sanctioned Canadian nonprofit, meaning it was cleared by the Canadian government to collect donations for humanitarian relief.



Fox News Digital has reached out to the Freedom Convoy's legal counsel at the Calgary-based Justice Centre for comment.



https://www.foxnews.com/world/...voys-givesendgo-fund



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Maybe the Canadian courts are veering out of their lane a little bit. Or a lot.

Or maybe The Gateway Pundit is blowing smoke out their ass. Again.

It is anything but a reliable site.

^^^Sooo, what exactly are you disputing? Fox News is reporting this as well...

CBC News is reporting:

Ontario court freezes access to funds raised for protest convoy on GiveSendGo platform
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A statement from Premier Doug Ford's office on Thursday said Attorney General Doug Downey brought the application for the order to prohibit anyone from distributing donations made through the website's 'Freedom Convoy 2022' and 'Adopt-a-Trucker' campaign pages. (Michael Charles Cole/CBC)

The Superior Court of Justice has granted a request from the Ontario government to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the truckers convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.

A statement from Premier Doug Ford's office on Thursday said Attorney General Doug Downey brought the application for the order, under 490.8 of the Criminal Code, to prohibit anyone from distributing donations made through the website's "Freedom Convoy 2022" and "Adopt-a-Trucker" campaign pages.

Ivana Yelich, spokesperson for the premier, said the order "binds any and all parties with possession or control over these donations."

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^^^Sooo, what exactly are you disputing? Fox News is reporting this as well...

Not disputing. Just stating that I put exactly zero faith in anything I read from that site.

https://thepostmillennial.com/...ignore-ontario-court



BREAKING: GiveSendGo plans to ignore Ontario’s attempted interference and pay the truckers anyway

Christian crowdfunding website, which is hosting the crowdfund for the Freedom Convoy truck drivers, says that it will not be following the orders of the Ontario court to freeze the crowdfund and stop the transfer of funds to the protesters.



Christian crowdfunding website, which is hosting the crowdfund for the Freedom Convoy truck drivers, says that it will not be following the orders of the Ontario court to freeze the crowdfund and stop the transfer of funds to the protesters.



The statement comes hours after Doug Ford and the Ontario provincial government moved to freeze the funds of the Freedom Convoy, which was issued by the court for crowdfunding website GiveSendGo to stop the transfer of donations to organizers of the protest movement.



In a statement on social media, GiveSendGo wrote: “Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo.”

“All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign,” the company stated.



As previously detailed, the Ford government took legal action to freeze the funds, which was followed up by a ruling by the Ontario Superior Court.

According to a statement: "Today, the Attorney General brought an application in the Superior Court of Justice for an order pursuant to section 490.8 of the Criminal Code prohibiting any person from disposing of, or otherwise dealing with, in any manner whatsoever, any and all monetary donations made through the Freedom Convoy 2022 and Adopt-a-Trucker campaign pages on the GiveSendGo online fundraising platform.

"This afternoon, the order was issued. It binds any and all parties with possession or control over these donations."



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Good, very good. And the strength in their message is refreshing.

I hope others take notice and follow suit.

Now they just have to figure out how to deliver the funds.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...t-single-racist.html



The TRUTH about the Freedom Convoy: RUPA SUBRAMANYA spoke to close to 100 protesters. She didn't find a single insurrectionist, white supremacist, racist or misogynist. She did find a diverse group of decent people, who've had enough



For two weeks, the 18-wheelers, the semis, the tractors and the pick-up trucks streamed through the snow and ice into the center of Ottawa, the Canadian capital.

They came from across the country. Vaxxed, unvaxxed, white, black, Chinese, Sikh, Indian, alone or with their wives and kids.


They huddled around campfires. They set up pop-up kitchens and tents with block captains doling out coffee and blankets.

They honked (and honked and honked). They blasted 'We Are the World.' And everywhere you looked, someone was waving the Maple Leaf.

It dipped to 4 degrees. The mayor declared a state of emergency. And they didn't budge.

The truckers were scared of running out of gas—freezing to death in their little truck beds in the middle of the night. The city threatened to arrest anyone who brought it to them.

In response, hundreds of Ottawans did just that. The truckers stayed put.

They are a city inside a city whose inhabitants—there are an estimated 8,000 to 10,000—were outraged with a country that seemed to have forgotten they existed.

This past Sunday, as if to confirm that suspicion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has yet to meet with Freedom Convoy leaders, took a personal day.

On Monday, during an emergency debate at the House of Commons, he called them 'a few people shouting and waving swastikas.'

​​I live in downtown Ottawa, within view of Parliament Hill, and have spent the past 10 days or so bundled up and walking around the protests.

I have spoken to close to 100 protesters, truckers and other folks, and not one of them sounded like an insurrectionist, white supremacist, racist or misogynist.

They sound like Ivan, 46, who emigrated, with his wife, Tatiana, from Ukraine to build a new life in New Brunswick, in eastern Canada.

'We came to Canada to be free—not slaves,' he said. 'We lived under communism, and, in Canada, we're now fighting for our freedom.' (Like so many truckers, Ivan refused to share his last name.)



B.J. Dichter, a spokesman for the Freedom Convoy, is vaccinated, and he estimates that many—maybe most—of the truckers at the protest are, too.

'I'm Jewish. I have family in mass graves in Europe. And apparently I'm a white supremacist,' he told me on Wednesday.

Ostensibly, the truckers are against a new rule mandating that, when they re-enter Canada from the United States, they have to be vaccinated.

But that's not really it.

The mandate is a moot point: The Americans have a similar requirement, and, anyway, 'the vast majority' of Canadian truckers, according to the Canadian Trucking Alliance, are vaccinated. (The CTA represents about 4,500 truckers nationwide.)

So it's about something else. Or many things: a sense that things will never go back to normal, a sense that they are being ganged up on by the government, the media, Big Tech, Big Pharma.

One thing was indisputable: There was this electricity coursing through the streets, and it felt like it could get out of control.

It didn't help when a handful of protesters sported swastikas and Confederate flags.

Or when GoFundMe shut down the convoy's fundraiser, announcing that donors had two weeks to reclaim their money before it was sent to 'established charities' chosen by Freedom Convoy organizers.

Or when the cops started arresting locals, including the elderly.

It is hard to capture how thoroughly Trudeau has misjudged the moment.

'This pandemic has sucked for all Canadians,' he said Monday. As for the protest? 'It has to stop,' declared the prime minister.

If he sauntered down to the mess of rigs on Wellington Street, across from the Parliament building, opposite the mall and the war memorial, if he talked to these people for a few minutes, he would understand: It will not stop.

What's happening in Canada right now is bigger than the mandates.



The solidarity was infectious.

There were copycat protests popping up in Helsinki, Finland, and Wellington, New Zealand and Nice, France (they planned to hit Paris and Brussels).

There were truckers organizing in the Netherlands, Australia and the United States. Among the Americans who had driven up to Ottawa there was talk that soon the big rigs would descend on Washington, D.C.

'Seeing the country fall apart like this is heartbreaking,' Sim said. 'For me, this is the line in the sand. If we lose this battle, I'd like to move out of Canada.'

He said that he was thinking of maybe heading to Florida.

A lot of the truckers were thinking about the States. But not yet.

'I feel that I owe it to me and others that share my values to, at least, fight for this.'



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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smj91z9il0s

Freedom Convoy: Dr. Roger Hopkinson - Speaks To The People | IrnieracingNew



Doctor Hopkinson states that the truckers have bigger gonads than. their big rigs!

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Originally posted by Bytes:
Maybe the Canadian courts are veering out of their lane a little bit. Or a lot.

Or maybe The Gateway Pundit is blowing smoke out their ass. Again.

It is anything but a reliable site.

"Shaye" Moss and Ruby Freeman would agree with you.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:

Not disputing. Just stating that I put exactly zero faith in anything I read from that site.

I have more faith in that site than I do CNN, ABC, CBS, and especially NBC.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
Or maybe The Gateway Pundit is blowing smoke out their ass. Again.
It is anything but a reliable site.

The Gateway Pundit is a tiny operation. It's basically just the Hoft brothers. They are doing their best to expose a lot of things the MSM doesn't want you to know and won't touch.

They can't and don't do most of their own reporting. They don't have the people for that. Do they always get it right? No. Do they sometimes error on the side of putting it out before verifying multiple sources. Yep. So you are right to be skeptical. Don't take anything they put out as gospel. But don't dismiss it either. They are not intentionally spreading misinformation like the propaganda wings of the .gov

chellim1, thanks for the effort you put in your posts. well reasoned, non-inflammatory and accurate. Hat Tip!

Well, now the tyrannical fascist government they demanded is having the police monitor conservatives and sending them by to intimidate.

This officer should have just walked out, but decided her paycheck is more important than whatever useless document they use up there for freedom of speech is worth.

However antifa was tolerated burning cities by them.

Just following orders, mam.

Arrogant stubbornness and willful stupidity is a bad combination for a head of State.

Give Send Go tells Trudeau to GO F**k Himself and GIVES Him the finger in a full SEND:

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Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.

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just remember that the definitions of liberal and conservatives when applied to Canadian politicians have zero resemblance to liberal and conservatives here in the US.

Canada is as socialist as France, if not more so

the government, judges, law enforcement and everyone else operate just like they would in any other socialist country

they are truly getting what they voted for - they had a chance to toss Trudeau out on his ass during the last election but the other candidates were so abysmally incompetent and unlikable that he got back in

and since he was re-elected he considers that to be a mandate to fuck everyone over because he knows the people are powerless

"No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people."
"Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy."
"I did," said Ford. "It is."
"So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?"
"It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want."
"You mean they actually vote for the lizards?"
"Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course."
"But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?"
"Because if they didn't vote for a lizard," said Ford, "the wrong lizard might get in.