CTV News reports:
The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars donated through online fundraising platform GiveSendGo to the truckers convoy protesting COVID-19 restrictions in Ottawa and at several border crossings.
A spokeswoman for Premier Doug Ford says Ontario’s attorney general brought the application to the Superior Court of Justice seeking an order that would prohibit anyone from distributing donations made through the website’s “Freedom Convoy 2022” and “Adopt-a-Trucker” campaign pages.
Spokeswoman Ivana Yelich says an order binding “any and all parties with possession or control over these donations” was issued today.
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Ontario court freezes access to donations for truckers’ protest from GiveSendGo https://t.co/lSLHAvlHQ5 pic.twitter.com/Q87GQlbnMd
— CTV News (@CTVNews) February 10, 2022
BREAKING: The Ontario government says it has effectively frozen all donations made to the trucker convoy through GiveSendGo. It is now a criminal offence to have any “dealing” with money from donations through this platform. pic.twitter.com/EhWWqe1V6J
— Andrew Lawton (@AndrewLawton) February 10, 2022
UPDATE: GiveSendGo has now raised over $8,000,000 to the freedom truckers after GoFundMe banned them.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) February 10, 2022