An Ontario court has frozen access to funds raised for the Freedom Convoy. The order is the latest dramatic development in the two week protest against COVID-19 vaccine requirements for truckers attempting to re-enter Canada after crossing the Canada-U.S. border.
The news follows mostly peaceful protests involving tractor trailers that have blocked usually busy thoroughfares in Ottawa and closed at least three border crossings.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remains unyielding in his opposition to the truckers. He's dismissed the protest as a fringe movement infested with Nazis. Meanwhile, Ottawa police have threatened protesters with arrest. Police Chief Peter Sloly even said a conviction might cost the truckers their jobs.
Although Alberta, Saskatchewan and Quebec have unveiled plans to loosen COVID restrictions, Ontario — and above all Trudeau — remain as defiant as ever.
The latest ruling, from Ontario's Supreme Court, prohibits the protest organizers from accessing the millions of dollars raised for the embattled truckers on the fundraising website GiveSendGo.
The CBC reports:
A statement from Premier Doug Ford's office on Thursday said Attorney General Doug Downey brought the application for the order, under Section 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, a spokesperson for the premier, said the order “binds any and all parties with possession or control over these donations.”
Convoy organizers quickly set up a campaign on Christian fundraising site GiveSendGo, after donors initially raised more than $10 million through the crowdfunding platform GoFundMe.
Late last week, GoFundMe said it would stop payments to convoy organizers and refund donors directly because the protest violates its rules on violence and harassment.
However, that hasn't stopped GoFundMe from supporting far-left movements even when some protests turned violent.
Ultimately, protests over racial injustice following the death of George Floyd led to unrest that resulted in dozens of deaths.
Canadian authorities have arrested multiple protesters in Ottawa but no significant violence has been reported.
I pity native Canadians who inhabited that great land before it was taken over by Trudeau and the rest of his leftist Socialists! It is time to flee! The latest ruling by the provincial Supreme Court proves they are puppets and the law means nothing. Canada has become the China of North America and what the Socialists fear most is all that will correct it.
I hope GoFunMe gets a false sense of courage from the ruling from the Canadian Kangaroo Court because some of the heavy hitters from the free side of the border have some very hostile plans in store for you!
Just give me the $$, I’ll gladly drive it directly to the truckers!
Trudeau is a disaster for all Canadians. Unless taken out of office Canadians will ultimately suffer the consequences of enslavement.
Justin The Cowardly. Backed into a corner – will he off himself or his people?
It’s ridiculous to think some governor or politician of sorts can tell me who I can or cannot give my hard earned money to. This isn’t a crime syndicate! We will stand up and defend the free world as we’ve known it.
FJB. and Princess Trudone.
Here’s to freedom and liberty!
Truckers Rock! ??
Well they should of put the money in a US Bank. You can see the Canada government overreach here. We in the USA must not allow the US Government ever to do such a thing to legal protestors and their funding’s. I said legal. Protest under our constitution are legal. We can petition our government when we do not agree with it. Canada elected a son of Cuba’s Feddel Castro when his mother had and affair with this communist peace of work. He is just as his daddy Feddel Castro. Anti Canada, freedom, anti Canadians. Power hungry communist. As you notice he calls the Canadian Citizen protestors Nazi’s when in turn it is really him and his power hungry adminstration who are the communist Nazi’s. These people always reverse their evil to try and make it look like those who are innocent Citizens trying to defend their lives, history and most of all their liberty and Freedoms.