Pam Damoff at the Public Safety and National Security Committee

On February 25th, 2022. See this statement in context.

February 25th, 2022 / 2 p.m.

Liberal

Pam Damoff Liberal Oakville North—Burlington, ON

The first folks arrived in Ottawa on January 28, but on February 2 GoFundMe froze the fundraiser that was taking place on their platform, which at the time was about $10 million. Then on February 4 they took it down.

Do you have any insight into how important it was to proactively remove access to those funds by occupants of the convoy?

I know that at the same time the Province of Ontario also froze the assets of a similar platform that sprang up, GiveSendGo.

Would the police operations have been more difficult had the folks involved in the protest had access to those millions of dollars?

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