During a phone call in early February with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Gov. Gen. Mary Simon voiced her support of the online crowdfunding platform GoFundMe shutting down its Freedom Convoy fundraising campaign, which resulted in most of the $10 million donated being refunded to the original senders.
Simon also said she believed the convoy to be funded by “some international money.”
“About the funding issue, is there more here[?] Saw about GoFundMe,” Simon said during the phone call on Feb. 5, according to a transcript introduced as evidence to the Public Order Emergency Commission (POEC) on Nov. 25.
GoFundMe removed the convoy’s fundraising page on Feb. 4 on the grounds that it violated their service terms….