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Given the author's command /41 to "always invert, invert, invert" does that, absent a financial emergency power, mean we should normalize allowing foreign money to bankroll people with semis to blockade cities under the flag of protest? That feels like something most citizens of a country would be against.

Without the massive inflows of cash this protest would have been just as demonstrative, but not as crippling or injurious to the public.

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>does that, absent a financial emergency power, mean we should normalize allowing foreign money to bankroll people with semis to blockade cities under the flag of protest?

If you're against that, the reasonable reaction would be to block foreign transfers and/or freeze the portion of funds that came from foreign sources, not ban them from the financial system entirely. Imagine the government shutting down an opposition candidate's campaign entirely, because it received a little too much money from foreign donors.

It is illegal for anyone who is not a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to contribute to a Canadian political party or campaign. This is also true in the United States.

This isn’t responding to the point in the comment directly above yours, from my perspective. That’s just restating the initial point.

The majority of donations are from Canadians.

citation? I'm reading:

- Leaked data of the donations on GiveSendGo showed Canadians raised $4.31 million for the Freedom Convoy while Americans donated $3.62 million.

- Americans, however, accounted 56 per cent of the donor base while Canadians made up only 29 per cent of all donors

I'm not sure if a 55:45 split makes this okay. If it were under five percent I would agree that it's negligible.

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