Ontario court freezes access to donations for truckers' protest from GiveSendGo
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The Ontario government says it has successfully petitioned a court to freeze access to millions of dollars in donations to the truckers convoy that were raised through online platform GiveSendGo.
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.
Hundreds of semi-trucks rolled into downtown Ottawa two weeks ago to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates and health restrictions and now trucks are also blockading border crossings in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario.
Donors initially raised more than $10 million through GoFundMe, which announced last Friday it was pulling the plug on the campaign and that the money would be refunded.
