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> Evidence suggests that funding for this protest is in large part foreign (IE not from canada)

Your sources indicate that the majority of the funding is from Canada. The second largest source is from the US (which doesn't seem out of place, given that cross-border trucking restrictions affect both American and Canadian truckers):

> A review of the data shows that some $4.3 million came from Canada, while another $3.6 million originated in the United States, though the United States accounted for the most individual donations. Small donations from dozens of other countries made up a fraction of the total amount raised.

> and that most canadian donations are from wealthy business owners, not workers

This is true for most causes. Workers don't have much money to donate, and rely on wealthier people sympathetic to their cause.



> > Evidence suggests that funding for this protest is in large part foreign (IE not from canada)

> Your sources indicate that the majority of the funding is from Canada.

Note that these two statements don't contradict, and yours is incorrect. There were more individual donors from the US contributing a smaller overall amount (56% of donors giving $3.62 million) compared to Canada (29% of donors, giving $4.31 million)[1]. And the total amount raised was 8.7 million[2]. Summary: A large part of the funding is indeed American. The ever-so-slight majority of the funding is non-Canadian. A majority of the donors were American.

[1] https://twitter.com/AmarAmarasingam/status/14930948285314621...

[2] https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7wpax/freedom-convoy-givese...




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