The money coming in from all over, going to unknown persons, not being distributed to protestors who requested funding for gas/food/legal fees associated with the protest, the $1m withdrawal earlier with no (publically, at least) known trail... all that together is kind of a problem for anyone involved.
Says here that 51% came from Canadians. I think 51% constitutes a majority.
But that number is dwarfed by the number of American donors — some 51,000 or about 55 per cent.
-- The 39% of the donors were local, and donated 51% of the money. 61% of donors were foreign, including the largest donor.
This is not a good look.
Belarus:
https://www.wionews.com/world/belarusian-president-lukashenk...
> The leader on Wednesday said that "foreign influence" is causing the protests across the country. Roughly translated by Reuters, his words implied "There is no any unrest in the country. And you know, without the external force - there would have not been even that."
China:
> China Blames Foreigners for Trying to Foment Unrest
https://www.voanews.com/a/tehran-blames-foreign-influence-in...
> Tehran Blames Foreign Influence in Deadly Protests Over Gas Price Hike
Hong Kong:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/21/carrie-lam-suggests-foreign-...
> Carrie Lam suggests foreign influence in Hong Kong protests: ‘Perhaps there is something at work’
Kazakhstan:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/why-is-kazakhstan-claim...
> The government narrative changed, too. Nazarbayev’s handpicked president, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, began pointing the finger at domestic and foreign “bandits and terrorists” and an internal plot to foment chaos.
Solomon Islands:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/26/solomon-island...
> Solomon Islands prime minister Manasseh Sogavare has blamed foreign interference over his government’s decision to switch alliances from Taiwan to Beijing for anti-government protests, arson and looting that have ravaged the capital Honiara for the past three days.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/09/world/asia/09china.html
Turkey:
https://atalayar.com/en/content/erdogan-calls-fight-against-...
> Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey, urged all state agencies in a decree published in the Turkish Official Gazette to act urgently to counter "foreign influence and corruption of national culture" as well as to safeguard "moral and national values" in media and film productions.
> However, critics of the Turkish government believe that this could be for the purpose of increasing censorship.
There isn't any remotely reputable data, just assertions. Which was my point with a tongue-in-cheek counter-assertion.
Likewise, we only have the demographic data for GiveSendGo. I'd bet that if the GoFundMe donations weren't attempted to be stolen that the demographics of the original GoFundMe donors has a high probability of being mostly from Canadians - and that it was the news of those funds being stolen; The funds blocked and attempted to be stolen via collusion with the government; a war crime under the Geneva convention by the way, to prevent resources/support from getting to protestors, which Canada is a signatory to - which the police officers who stole fuel, gas and firewood, from the protestors will be held accountable for this, eventually; the Ottawa police who might I add aren't mandated to be vaccinated or lose their job, the hypocrisy is quite shocking but telling here.
GoFundMe also broke their own standard protocol of not automatically refunding the funds to the donors - but instead saying they'd donate it their "pre-approved charities". This action very well could have outraged the world and many Americans who then may have felt the need to support these more and more clear tyrannical behaviours.
The world is far more complex than most are willing to invest the adequate, necessary time to understand, but then are happy to feel righteous that their arguably shallow view must be right - making it easy to toe the line feeling like you're part of the crowd/mob, and therefore "safe in numbers;" Jordan Peterson would likely classify these people as intelligent ideologues, who he says are the most dangerous because they've really convinced themselves that they're right - just provide them enough of a framework for shallow understanding and it feels plausible enough to be truth, when it's only a half truth; justice dictates we look for the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
Trudeau is sounding and acting more and more like Hitler as time goes by [no, I am not comparing him to the full atrocities of the Nazis exterminating as many Jews as he could), and I'm not the only seeing the similarities between Trudeau and Hitler: "World-famous liberal commentator Bill Maher calls out Trudeau." - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i72czkSUsM - posted to Pierre Poilievre's YouTube account, Pierre who is now running for the Conservative party leadership after O'Toole was recently kicked out [he was incompetent the whole pandemic and why Trudeau had basically no opposition] - and he is likely to win. He's been calling out Trudeau's bullshit for years now in very clearly logical and articulate, grounded manner.
For those who aren't aware of the dire situation with how badly our Charter of Rights and Freedoms has been unreasonably infringed upon by our government the last 2 years, including not even doing the due process required if they wanted to reasonably infringe upon it - which there is a method to doing so but which then requires public debate which Trudeau loves avoiding as part of his controlling the narrative, please watch Jordan Peterson and Brian Peckford discussing our constitutional crisis, as well as Peckford's filing a lawsuit against the Federal government a few weeks ago: "Canadian Constitutional Crisis | Brian Peckford | The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast S4: E78" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdhFuMDLBDM (1+ million views since it was recorded/published Jan. 26th)
Likewise, you can also go to https://FreeNorthDeclaration.ca - where ~600 Canadian lawyers have signed, including law professors from our top universities including Queen's University - in hopes of educating Canadians that laws are being broken and due process not followed. If Canadian, please read it and ideally sign it if you care about the law.