The federal government’s claim that the Freedom Convoy was mostly foreign-funded was challenged on Thursday as a House committee met to review the fundraising behind the weeks-long cross-country protest. The meeting of the Public Safety Committee was often tense as some MPs berated the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe for initially even accepting to carry the convoy’s fundraiser, and then for GiveSendGo to pursue it to this day despite legal action. The government’s claim that the trucker-led movement against COVID-19 restrictions was a “largely foreign-funded, targeted and coordinated attack” on Canada’s democracy, as described by Minister of Emergency Preparedness Bill Blair, was contradicted by numbers shared by GoFundMe’s president. “Our records show that 88 percent of donated funds originated in Canada, and 86 percent of donors were from Canada,” said Juan Benitez. Benitez also said his company has capabilities in place to detect nefarious activity related to donations, but in the convoy …