Money given to the convoy through crowdfunding platforms GoFundMe and GiveSendGo was put into escrow under court order, pending a proposed class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of Ottawa residents and businesses.
In their motion application, the defendants say they need $450,400 for legal representation at the inquiry, including an unnamed senior counsel at a rate of $350 per hour. The defendants have “significant concerns about their ability to be adequately represented and to fully participate in the Commission without access to funding,” they argue in the motion application.“The demands of the Commission are far greater than anticipated,” they argue, saying they "will be significantly prejudiced without access to legal representation funds.”
CTVNationalNews On what legal ground can they hold this money. It isn't theirs. . .
CTVNationalNews She is a terrorist .. don’t give her a penny
CTVNationalNews Rex Murphy held a fund raising event for Tamara Lich. $2000.00 a dinner plate. Far-right news media in US crumbling. Hope to see that happen here in Canada.
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CTVNationalNews There should be an investigation into who leaked the donors names illegally, where is the RCMP on this story? Come on CTV remember when you actually did real investigations? Prove us wrong that you are not Trudeau’s payroll!
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CTVNationalNews CTV is an activist hub of the liberal party, Twitter is about to provide Canadians with the facts, shite is going to hit the fan. Shameful CTV
CTVNationalNews Those people need to stop now and move on with their lives. What a bunch of selfish grifters!
CTVNationalNews Release the money to the freedom fighters.
Tyrant Trudeau must resign. All trust and faith in this government has been lost.
CTVNationalNews CAN WE PLEASE GET ALL FLAGS LOWERED TO HALF Mask because my uncle Elden Abbott just pass away on Friday morning he had Perkins we are not sure what day the funeral will be we still waiting to hear back from my dad it would be great and noble to have you guys Lower Canadian
CTVNationalNews Maybe they should ask Pierre to help
CTVNationalNews Give the freedom convoy their money back
CTVNationalNews how is it legal that a government freezes this groups donations? In a democracy?
CTVNationalNews I agree.
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Lol - no.
Definitely not!
Hard no. Merchants and residents impacted by their negligence can/should get it.
Boo freakin hoo
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simonchase123 Stolen citizen money! Thou shall not steal.
Where can I donate to give them more money?
These criminals should not receive a cent from their ill-gotten grifts. Let their wealthy Con donors support them...maybe Candy, Pierre & Theo can hold a bake sale.
How’s Lisa LaFlamme?
and so they should. 90% of the donations came from Canadians - millions of them. at an average of $50.00 each. that is my money and millions of others hard earned $$. it is not for the govt to steal or put towards one of their weird woke ideologies just bcs they disagree withit
They weren't grifting dumb wads at all. 🙄
Shouldn't have been frozen to begin with. Just more Turdeau govt overreach and control.
Return the money to donators and let them decide what to do with it.
No Way! Do not give the money back to the cult members 🖕🤡
No fucking way. Not a penny for the Clownvoy thugs
Hahahahahhahahahahahah jailTamara jailRatKing
Those funds were raised FOR them. Why is the government stealing it from them?
Communist canada under the regime of comrade trudeau Protest me....and I will freeze your bank accounts, seize your assets, demonize you publicly, label you as racists and have my propaganda media run the story for months....
Why did they not access the grant available? Did they just want to whine?
They certainly should get the cash to defend themselves !
No way, that money should go to the people of downcore who were directly by this BS. The organizers can go the hell.
That what you get for attempting to rob our Democracy from us Why Pierre Poilievre, Candace Bergen, Andrew Scheer, Erin O'Toole not paying the Fruckers Convoy's legal bills? 🤔
My answers would be 'too bad'.....actions have consequences and we have to show that in our decisions !!!
They should be allowed t access the funds that were legitimately donated to them. It's their money.
Awww poor saps! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Should never have been taken.
The Canadian Federal Govt are Rainbow Nazis
NOPE!!!!
Nope.
CTV the real fake news bigots around.
No. I would suggest that you divide it up and give it to the Ottawa businesses that were harassed and lost business to those fools.
Since the FEDERAL LIBERALS have been proven to be the TERRORISTS in this matter, the funds should be released!
Freeland refusing to answer questions at EA commission stated 'in a real court of law it would be badgering the witness.' Reality, In a real court of law Freeland would be held in contempt of court for not answering the questions and thrown in jail.
Absolutely the correct thing to do!
So who wins... the lawyers win.
CTVNationalNews “Criminals want fruits of their crimes released to defend them against consequences of said crimes.” 🙄
It's their money!
You are only allowed to donate to the Trudeau regimes approved entities. Like using a billion of tax payers money to bail out their WE cult. As Freeland refuses to answer questions and Mendicino lies his face off. Some Liberal is going to try to tell us its not a dictatorship...
Tell them to pay for it out of all they merch they’re grifting, and most assuredly not paying tax on.
How about NO, How about Legal Aid ?
Wow, talk about entitled.
This is the problem. Govts have an unlimited number of prosecutors to choose from, all paid for with pubic funds (tax money). Money is no object to the prosecution. They should release the funds.
Here to see all the liberal bots spread hate and propaganda.
theft by government clearly
That would be just. Funds should never have been frozen in the first place for a peaceful, legal protest.
It should be unfrozen.. People donated to them.. for this purpose.. not to our corrupt government.
It's their money. It was given to them by their supporters.
Here I'll fix the headline for you: Domestic Terrorist organizers want dark money unfrozen to fund bla bla bla... 😑
No.
They should get the money for that, it's what it's for
Idiots!!!
Two men on Jordan video clubbed together for lawyer on Vax mandate that stopped them flying here,been registered at court,apparently no one qualified to implement it,no scientist data nothing,looks good lawyer says.
Geez. THey should have had re-written the history, the law, and the entire system. But they surrendered and yielded to tyranny.
Will the taxpayers go after the millions of dollars they cost us and the harassment?
Should never been frozen in the first place
Why is the money of any Canadian “frozen” by the government at all What crime was committed again? Mischief?
No
Give them the money.
F🍁CK THE GOVERNMENT just a punch of thefts and criminals
Literally what the money was donated for. Food, gas, lawyers etc. u freeze the damn money
That money belongs to the organization it was donated to
Comply !!! You will obey!
Ottawa should not have frozen the funds in the first place….we have criminals running this country
I see it’s from CTV news so I’m going to say fabricated story
It doesn’t belong to the government.
Please give us the proceeds of our crime so we can pay to weasel out of the consequencesbof our crimes.
It should t be frozen anyways. The donation were found to come from average Canadians supporting average Canadians. They are holding the money as a political stunt and has nothing to do with the safety of Canada.
Its unbelievable what the fascist JustinTrudeau has done to the one's beautiful Canada TrudeauForTreason
Illegally frozen in the first place
Why are they frozen? Criminal?!
Lock em up.
do the Crime ,DO THE TIME
That would be a waste of money that is being held for lawsuits against them/organization . Using these funds for their defense is pissing it away cause their guilty and should be held accountable ,use legal aid for your defense if your broke. Do the crime do the time
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions
Trudeau had NO RIGHT OR AUTHORITY to freeze any ones bank account. Let’s freeze his foundation & use money towards debt he’s incurred.
Screw those terrorists. Let them pay themselves the little weasels
Give the money back to the nonars and not give these people one cent
No way Hosea
Rightfully. Those funds are NOT ILLEGAL.
Lock them up!
Should never have been frozen in the first place.
That money should go to the city of Ottawa to offset policing costs and damage.
Would you free the Taliban money
These donations were not for legal fees they’re facing for an attempted overthrow of our government… that money belongs to the people of Ottawa.
Yes, absolutely, 100%
No , courts should confiscate that money and share it to the people of Ottawa that were inconvenienced by this illegal occupation. The organizers should be left behind bars.
Keep it locked up!!!!
Nope you are on your own
Too bad
Why that money was to be use for the convoy not pay for those idiots court cases.
Everyone with a bank account should take heed no matter what side of the fence you sit on.
Yes and they need it to expose the cowardice and to know the truth.
givesendgo let’s go
Too bad🤬🤬🤬
So very pleased to see CTV News refer to the Freedom Convoy without the up-to-now obligatory 'so-called' preposition they had been using. I'm speechless. ;) I think I'm feeling hopeful... all 'warm 'n fuzzy'.. Neat. Thanks, .
Ottawa for the clean up
I miss the apt balcony guy :) It was epic that's how all Canadians felt about the occupation, they can whine in the courts all they want, and quite frankly Canadians moved on to more important issues like more compassion for a real war against a real dictator Putin!
What? No trolls to defend this?
Wait. They didn’t get the funds? Is there another givesendgo fund being organized for them again? Why would the funds still be frozen? Oh wait, JustinTrudeau doesn’t want anyone questioning his dictatorship liberal_party
Hard pass. The organizers can foot their own legal bills and take accountability for their actions .Full stop.
They want access to illegally obtained funds to help pay for illegal acts.
When they give back the truckers all of their money I hope they give them the interest as well.
Please…they can raise 10000 x that amount in no time
No. She danced and sang, supported her community and may have honked a horn. I was told 'not to tolerate' that kind of thing from 'those people'.
Breaking: Hells angels want profits back from looting and thieving to cover legal bills ..
Maybe Queen Romana Dildo will help them out.🤣
Funds are frozen due to a class action lawsuit You’re not special … raise your own cash
Pay your own way
Figures...bottom feeders get the$$$&
Good fu🍁king luck! Traitors to our democracy. csiscanada you better shut these fascists down. A’ho!🪶😡🇨🇦👇🏽
This is like a drug dealer asking for the money that was confiscated in a raid back to use for their defense fund lol.
Wouldn’t you think they may have prepared for that in the potential that it could happen? Basic risk management.
Play nicely Trudeau government, give them their money back and let the courts decide who is right🙏
The Court cases are starting The doctors have the knowledge to break the narrative.. The lawyers know how to do it ..
You mean the funds the government froze because they claimed they were sent from outside of Canada. When they actually were not?
Inbreds begging for money, as always...
Yup I'm sure that's why they donated...fools.
How about… no. That money should be used to pay the millions wasted on police services. Not to let them drag this thing even longer and wasting even more public $$$
Freezing little old ladies bank accounts for donating $20 to sanctioned Veterans charities.,..Not the Canada I remember.
That's called theft!!!!
The money is theirs! Ppl donated it to the CONVOY! Period.
All liiieessss.........
Perfectly reasonable.
ikwilson It was donated to them! Damn right that money should be released to them!!!
Governments love stealing money that is not theirs especially when the government doesn't agree with protesters.
They asked 'Ontario Supreme' court. Not just 'a' court. Nice misleading headline . Surely you are aware that most won't read the article to find that and blindly pass on in error laying incorrect blame and flaming fires. Just a small correction. Please try harder.
You know ..if Trudeau had met with the many Canadian citizens who had a grievance with his government or sent a representative..NONE of this would have happened and it wouldn't be an issue.. HE is the one at fault..he did not do his job..he hid away..put the blame where it lies.
ikwilson Yes do it
It is disgusting what the Trudeau and the Canadian Gov't has done to Tamara and others. Bank account freezes, right out of Stalin 1930 play book.
I guess they'll just have to do some more fundraising. 🤷♀️
YOU scumbags at CTV should be helping them get it back. And by that I mean the scumbags in control there. Since much of these people being without this money had to do with yours and other mainstream news outlets inaccurate and biased reporting.
ikwilson Freezing the funds was illegal in the first place.
That was NOT a demonstration. That was an invasion take over. And those who took part loved every single second of it. They got some attention, and got to show their mommy, and daddy they were on tv. Goo goo ga ga 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Nah.
End the banana republic un freeze bank accounts.
Should never have been frozen in the first place
That's their money you corrupt scumbags
No
It's still frozen? Lol, an actual banana republic
It’s unbelievable that the donations were taken in the first place. Canada is fucked.
Can you use the proceeds you collected to help you commit your crimes to pay for your defense for committing the crimes.
If the use of the Emergencies Act is found to be an abuse of power by parliament judges/prosecutors that continue to take enforcement actions against the participants , should be subjected to discipline including dismissal.
Deny them that fund and throw them in jail until they f… rot!
There was never a reason to freeze it other than to silence opinions.
Thanks to freeland
Should never have been frozen in the first place. Criminal government TrudeauDictatorshipMustGo 🖕🤡 POS PM A55 🕳
Good. Give them. The money back so they can challenge in our courts
Give it to all the residents who couldn’t work for 3 weeks because they were being terrorized.
Good. They should get every penny. The mandates were unscientific.
Yup and so they should it’s money given to them by honest hard working Canadians tired of being trampled on by Justin Trudeaus gvt
If I did not want donations to me to be frozen pending the resolution of a civil suit I would simply not be such an asshole that a whole *community* sued me.
Keep their money and lock them up,MAGA PierrePoilievre
The money should be given to Ottawa and Police to help compensate for lost revenue and expenses! Never reward the criminals for their illegal behaviour! IStandWithTrudeau PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou
So they should 👍
It was donated to them after all.
ABSOLUTELY NOT! Those twits owe this country BILLIONS
The money should indeed go to those whom it was donated too. Seems reasonable, why should the government be allowed to dictate who people give money (or anything) to.
They are entitled to it. But they are naive if they think that commission is seeking the truth. It’s a clown show to cover for Trudeau.
It is their money.
Cabinet had bigger fish to fry than 2 blocks: ALL of Ottawa, ALL borders, guns in Coutts, copycats, threats... 38M citizens each get 0.81s for the PM's attention. The convoyists had 3 WEEKS to make their points coherent but didn't then, nor since. Nor will they at the commission.
They should have the money that was donated to them and illegally confiscated by over reach government
That's a part of what the donation where for. Seems like there should be monstrous compensation for the unlawful actions of the radical left government
You should start all articles and tweets with, State sponsored propaganda.
Sept 4 th starts the world wide walk out. 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦😂😂😂😂
History will remember, this is how they treated heroes standing up to tyranny.
They want to turn this into a circus.
A corrupt government freezing accounts of money legally donated by Canadians is a bigger crime than anything that may have happened at the convoy cdnpoli
Well it was donated to them by the public. They should receive it
It's still frozen? Why?
They're going to need that money to pay off the civil class action law suit led by Mr. Champ on behalf of Ottawa's downtown residents. This won't even cover a tenth of that settlement. FAFO indeed.
Nope. Byeeee!
The money should go to support the defendants, in court and at the inquiry, to ensure corrupt JustinTrudeau is held accountable!
So unclear on the concept.
Media outlets will be defunded; you will be forced to work for peanuts eventually. Then WE the people you have been lying to all these years will also shun you for your sins and indiscretions. You have been warned.
The donations never should have been frozen and they were because it was a protest the Prime Minister didn't agree with and it was not in the interest of the Liberals and so by invoking the Emergencies Act the Prime Minister created a crisis that was of his own making.
Funds are still frozen? Liberals already caught lying about the urgency and reasoning for freezing the accounts.
Give them their money you crooked thrives!
LOL. No.
The fact there are no pro bono lawyers wanting to stand and unite with their brothers and sisters to take on the beast in f*ing insanity
There still frozen, trudea s government is a dictatorship!
KanadaA is KRAP . Wexit
In the meantime. Bad burly man ‘Moose’ for hurting Freeland’s feelings.
gonna find out how treasonous the judge is real quick.
They should sue the heck out of this totalitarian government.
Sorry Trudeau sent that money to Zelensky to buy new clothes for his Vogue Cover shoot!
Shouldn’t be frozen in the first place…. That’s ridiculous
If the funds are not unfrozen Canadians will be forced to conclude that our justice system is just as corrupt as our political system.
Shouldn't they have to wait for the outcome of Tamara Leitch's trial since the $ is in her name? Maybe I'm misunderstanding.
Hmmm Let’s sue the govt. for enacting the EA … wait, who’s paying for the lawyer? Let’s buy a church … hey King Dildo did you pay the rent? Umm. Let’s just do a Royal squat but their lawyer doesn’t appear in court to defend said squat. Moral of story … Ask Tamara for the $
The money was donated to them, and so it should go where intended - and the government should stay the F out of it.
Important: ReleaseTheFunds
There should be liable suits filed against Bell Media and others for falsley depicting the protesters and doxing the people who donated BEFORE it was deemed illegal. That would easily pay legal fees AND restitution.
Bring all the cash to St Brigid’s parking lot and burn it. 🙂
Optics. You’re terrible at this
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