MP Says She Hopes GoFundMe’s Cancellation of Convoy Fundraiser ‘Was Not Politically Influenced’

Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis says government and industry should be independent of each other, after GoFundMe cancelled a fundraiser for the trucker protest in Ottawa that had garnered almost $10 million in donations. “I certainly hope that GoFundMe’s decision to defund the Trucker Convoy was not politically influenced. Governments must be independent of industry, and vice versa,” Lewis said in a Twitter post on Feb. 5. On Feb. 4, the crowdfunding platform said it would block t...