Finance committee  Thank you. I'll start with that question. Mr. Chair, at GoFundMe we're experts in social fundraising. We are not public policy experts. We would welcome the opportunity to contribute our expertise about what we observe on our platform, our policies and our procedures and how we

Finance committee  Certainly we are continually evolving our platform, our policies, our tools and our procedures. I believe we improve month by month—and we need to because the use of platforms and the Internet and collaboration, and, frankly, the crises in the world that cause people to look to a

Finance committee  Thank you for the question. Mr. Chair, I'm glad that Ms. Wilford also referenced [Technical difficulty—Editor] where contributions may be negative. That said, there are tremendous amounts of foreign contributions that are very positive to campaigns. I believe over 80 countries c

Finance committee  Yes, thank you. I just want to quickly clarify that the statistics and numbers that we're quoting here are the facts of what we observed and processed through the GoFundMe platform. It may be that media reports—and I'm not familiar with this specific one—are related. You did ment

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, I think the amount of diligence that happens is based on our assessment of risk for a certain person. As I mentioned, on scrubbing donations themselves, we do that on a risk-based approach to identify where the parties should be. The general standard that we're aware

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, first, we appreciate that our collaboration with authorities and our work in responsibly handling this unprecedented, fast-moving and complex fundraiser was recognized by the committee. Thank you for that. It continues to be our endeavour to be the most responsible pla

Finance committee  No, we did not discover that. Once we reviewed the donations, we did not identify significant donations or patterns that were there. I believe Ms. Wilford might know the largest donation that we took on the campaign from a non-Canadian source.

Finance committee  Yes. Thank you for that confirmation. Yes, 88% of donated funds originated in Canada, and 86% of the donors to the campaign were from Canada.

Finance committee  When we did our analysis of the source of funds that were donated to this campaign, we worked closely with payment processing partners and related financial institutions to assess the sources of donations based on the financial instruments that were used. For example, a credit ca

Finance committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. It is our pleasure to join you all today to discuss important matters related to the “freedom convoy” fundraiser and social fundraising in Canada. My name is Juan Benitez. I'm the president of GoFundMe. I am joined by Kim Wi

Public Safety committee  I also want to take this opportunity to appreciate the fact that some of the committee members have acknowledged what good happens on the GoFundMe platform. We are very proud and humbled by that and appreciate our opportunity to help communities in need. In this case—

Public Safety committee  The circumstances surrounding the campaigns on our platform are often very specific. Our organizers create campaigns on GoFundMe and they've created hundreds and thousands of them; in fact, millions of them have been created since our inception over a decade ago. The circumstanc

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I'll add to Ms. Wilford's comments. I appreciate the fact that it's coming up here in the committee that peaceful protest is cherished and that this campaign originally started as something that, by all known circumstances at that time, was a peaceful protes

Public Safety committee  I believe that question is directed to GoFundMe, so I will address it. Thank you. Mr. Chair, we endeavour to have a posture at GoFundMe and processes, procedures and tools that we believe surpass the regulatory requirements we are under. Our decisioning on our platform is guided

Public Safety committee  Mr. Chair, if I may, I'd like to remind the committee that this group of fundraisers, and this fundraiser as a whole, was—and I believe we can all agree—an unprecedented event, in terms of the scale in which it evolved, the pace at which it evolved, the centralized nature of it a