Prince George area residents donated $17,050 to support the so-called Freedom Convoy through the Christian crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, according to a list distributed by the online transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets.
The list includes 133 donations, ranging from $1,000 to $5, attributed to names and emails from the four Prince George postal code areas: V2K, V2L, V2M and V2N. The average value of alleged donations from Prince George was $128.20, with the majority of donations ranging from $50 to $100.
The Citizen reached out to three Prince George residents whose names and personal information are included in the list, but all three declined to comment. The Citizen has not been able to independently verify the accuracy of the leaked information and is therefore not publishing the names and amounts they gave of any of the alleged donors.
Among the alleged local donations, several of the email addresses are associated with local businesses and one was from a local public institution.
Many of the alleged donations included comments posted on GiveSendGo’s website.
“This movement is the People's last hope from being driven into complete servitude to corrupt governments,” commented one of three local people who donated $1,000 to the convoy.
“I should not need a government barcode to take my child swimming or eat at a restaurant. This is dehumanizing.The only person causing hate and division is the Prime Minister,” said one Prince George person who donated $50.
A Prince George donor who gave $30 commented, “Go Truckers! Dear Heavenly Father In the name of Jesus Christ may we win this war against the elite! Amen.”
“As one of Trudeau's 90% vaccinated, I am in that group against my religion and forced against my choice. Having to choose to put food on the table for my family or starve. Trudeau thinks the vaccination status of someone equals support for him, but that could not be further from the truth. Human beings should have a choice to what goes into their bodies. Simple. Keep up the fight!!” a Prince George person who donated $70 commented.
The list, which Distributed Denial of Secrets says was obtained by hackers who disrupted the crowdfunding organization’s website, contains a total of 92,000 individual donations.
On Sunday night, a Daily Dot reporter said on Twitter that GiveSendGo was redirecting to another site. On that site, a video from the Disney film Frozen played with a manifesto that condemned the fundraising site for its role in financing the convoy.
According to analysis done by The Canadian Press, 39 per cent of the donors came from Canada, 56 per cent came from the United States, two per cent came from the United Kingdom and three per cent came from more than 100 other countries.
Canadians donated $4.31 million US, Americans $3.62 million US and British donors gave $77,000 US, The Canadian Press reported.
