Public Safety committee  Americans, obviously, are different from Canadians in some respects. The perception we had over here, at least that I had, was that there was a protest going on against the overreaches of what some people believed the Canadian government to be involved in. We believe that protest is fundamental to democracy and it needs to be upheld.

Public Safety committee  No, I don't believe that.

Public Safety committee  In our course of research around the campaigns, that was not something that we were aware of. Obviously, there are always fringe elements to any organization. I believe the media in general just tries to polarize the fringe things because it's great for the media. It doesn't necessarily constitute the general—

Public Safety committee  You can say that. I don't necessarily agree with that.

Public Safety committee  From what I've seen, I believe it was lawful up to the point where orders were enacted to make it unlawful.

Public Safety committee  I don't necessarily know that those things happened.

Public Safety committee  I do need to make a distinction. The blockade over the bridges had nothing to do with the campaigns on GiveSendGo. There weren't campaigns on GiveSendGo for those blockades. What happened in Ottawa, from what I was getting reports of on the ground, was that truckers did move into the city and that lanes of traffic were open and available for emergency vehicles and other vehicles to travel through.

Public Safety committee  I did hear reports of horns blaring, that an injunction was made against that, and they stopped.

Public Safety committee  I'll reiterate that GiveSendGo does not condone violence of any form. We believe there's more power in the unity of peaceful protest. As in any polarized situation, we recognize there will be a few individuals and groups who might intentionally try to incite violence and hijack a movement.

Public Safety committee  We already have processes in place with law enforcement to take care of bad actors who are actually committing acts of violence.

Public Safety committee  Again, the Canadian government did not reach out to us—

Public Safety committee  Yes, that's going to be very consistent. Most of the donations were under $100, and it's pretty consistent across the board.

Public Safety committee  Yes, I believe it to be. I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but I believe that to be the case, yes.

Public Safety committee  I would say that probably around six per cent of our campaigns originate out of Canada.

Public Safety committee  Off the top of my head, probably not. We have thousands of campaigns that come through GiveSendGo all the time. Most of them are related to missions trips, people going with churches to help with emergencies in communities—medical bills, adoptions, things like that. Likely all of those types of things have happened before in Canada through our platform.