Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you for the question, Mr. Chair. Yes, I do.

Declaration of Emergency committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good evening, Chair and members of the committee. It is our pleasure to join with honourable senators and members of Parliament today to discuss these important issues. My name is Kim Wilford, and I'm the general counsel of GoFundMe. At the outset, I would like to thank the committee for its important work to review the exercise of powers pursuant to the public order emergency declared under the Emergencies Act.

Finance committee  I would just say that as the most recognized platform, we're the most responsible one. We operate within the law and, in many cases, above the law. We hope that's one reason among many that we stand out and that people around the world use us to come together and help each other.

Finance committee  Thank you, everyone, and happy birthday!

Finance committee  I wish I were the sort of expert that you may think I am. I am pretty well versed in the regulations in the jurisdictions were we operate and other markets where we decide to go, and where our donors are coming from. What I was trying to say last time is that there are a number of laws right now protecting users and the platforms.

Finance committee  Thank you so much for that question. You know, social fundraising is actually a relatively new phenomenon. GoFundMe was founded in 2010. Our mission is to help people help each other. Right now with the Ukraine crisis, we've raised, just since the invasion, over $50 million from over 140 countries.

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. I just want to correct you. We are GoFundMe; we are not GiveSendGo.

Finance committee  That's fine. Mr. Chair, what I would say is no. We operate within all the laws of all the jurisdictions where we are. We would never ignore a court order, so no.

Finance committee  That is correct. The facts and the circumstances of this case were so quickly evolving that once we had that credible, consistent information and we could see that the protest was turning in a way that violated our terms, we removed it from our platform. Certainly if we had some sort of court order, an injunction of any kind telling us that was occurring, we would have complied.

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, we have hundreds of thousands of campaigns. We are the world's largest and best-known social fundraising platform. All of our campaigns are required to comply with our terms of use, which clearly outline the permitted and prohibited conduct on the platform. When we become aware of issues through our reviews or through the help of the GoFundMe community, which can at any time report a fundraiser for any reason, we investigate all of those, and as circumstances change during the time that a campaign remains live on the platform, it may go from being within permissible use on our platform to not being, and at that point we will remove it.

Finance committee  In fact, we use a number of tools and technology to ensure to the best of our abilities that campaigns on our platform are within acceptable use.

Finance committee  Thank you, Juan. Thank you for the question. The largest donation in this campaign was from a Canadian, and it was in the amount of $30,000. I don't have the—

Finance committee  That was the largest donation. Yes.

Finance committee  No. That's correct.

Finance committee  When this fundraiser was created on January 14, it was within our acceptable terms of use. There was nothing in our original diligence around the fundraiser organizer or anything in the campaign content that suggested that it violated our terms. The donation velocity is what caused it to get the attention of our internal teams.