Donors to the Ottawa convoy protest contributed more than $460,000 to Conservative leadership candidates — and many of them were donating to a federal political party for the first time — an analysis by CBC News shows.
A comparison of donations to Conservative leadership contenders up to Aug. 1 with the GiveSendGo crowdfunding campaign for the convoy protest found over 3,100 people who contributed to both campaigns, based on identical combinations of names and postal codes.
A clearer picture of who has donated to a crowdfunding platform is emerging after a leak of some 92,000 donors, showing a substantial base of American support for the Canadian protest, coded keywords for fringe U.S. movements, and genuine grassroots Canadian support.
The lion’s share of convoy donors’ leadership campaign donations went to Pierre Poilievre’s campaign.
The actual number of people who contributed both to the convoy and to Conservative leadership candidates could be higher. CBC News’ data-matching formula did not list those with slight differences in their names or postal codes as having donated to both campaigns. And some convoy donors may have contributed to a leadership campaign after July, the latest month for which data is available.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-conservatives-donations-1.6582507, https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/convoy-fundraising-leak-shows-substantial-u-s-donations-75k-from-canadian-donor-1.5780989
