Canada’s borders are now cleared, but the capital city has been occupied for weeks by noisy, aggressive anti-vaxxers and their anti-masking friends. Nationally, any support the protesters in Ottawa were getting from the general population has waned since hackers leaked the donor list, and the RCMP uncovered at Coutts' border crossing what appears to be a nation-wide fascist plot, along with the will and an arsenal to see it through. Naturally, the weeks long attempt to Coal Roll and honk the country into submission has been deeply unpopular with Ottawa residents from day 1, regardless of the party scenes streamed by the protesters. ie It was not a peaceful occupation, or popular. But it certainly was well funded.
As more and more evidence comes to light of just how serious this attack on Canadian political institutions was/is, I am sure it is very heartening for Canadians to see their closest ally stepping up:
Congressional Democrats have sent a letter “demanding details from Facebook about how many fake online accounts created by foreign actors helped promote Canada's convoy protests”
Wow.
Here it is:oversight.house.gov/…
According to recent reporting, a Missouri woman’s Facebook account was hacked and stolen as far back as October 2021, and hackers then used the account to create of some of the largest Facebook groups organizing the blockade in Ottawa, Canada. Between January 26 and January 28, 2022, the account launched several Facebook groups that grew to include more than 340,000 combined members and has attracted online support from far-right groups. These
Facebook groups were used to raise millions of dollars in funds.
340,000
Compare that to the data leak that suggests just 36,000 Canadians, or about 0.1% of the population were involved with funding the Coaly Rollers.
Incidentally, that data leak also indicated that an even larger number of US citizens donated, and in some cases to which groups they belonged. Those folk would do well to bear in mind that Canada has had an extradition treaty with the US since 1976.