Juno News - November 04, 2022


The legacy media is misrepresenting the Freedom Convoy


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3 minutes

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182.95763

Word count

652

Sentence count

29

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Misogyny

1

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Tamara Leach's Freedom Convoy was a group of truckers who raised over $1 million through a GoFundMe campaign to help pay for road repairs in the city of Ottawa. After the campaign was shut down, Chris Barber testifies that he doesn't know what happened with all of the money.

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00:00:00.000 I'm going to play a very brief snippet and the reason it's a brief snippet is because this was
00:00:05.140 the brief snippet that a global news reporter shared online and it is a brief snippet that
00:00:12.680 takes a lot of liberties as does the accompanying tweet. Why don't you take a look? Yeah but you
00:00:19.500 guys raised an enormous amount of money outside of that right? You were raising thousands of
00:00:23.820 dollars a day in cash and e-transfers correct? Yeah the e-transfers would have went into
00:00:29.820 Mrs. Litch's personal bank account. And cash? I don't know what happened with the cash. There was
00:00:37.260 always people donating cash. It was all around I guess. So that is a bit of an interesting clip. Now
00:00:43.700 just for context that was lawyer Paul Champ who is representing the Coalition of Ottawa Residents and
00:00:49.620 Businesses and Paul Champ is asking about the money which was not an aspect of the convoy that Chris
00:00:56.460 Barber was really doing all that much about. And what David Baxter of Global Rights is after the
00:01:02.060 Freedom Convoy's GoFundMe got shut down Chris Barber testifies e-transfers went to Tamara Leach's
00:01:07.500 personal bank account and he doesn't know what happened with all the cash. And you're like oh
00:01:12.120 wow that sounds like Tamara Leach was making away with millions. And then Rachel Gilmore also of Global
00:01:17.740 News tweets the following. When Chris Barber is asked about the money the convoy raised quote the
00:01:24.220 e-transfers would have went into Ms. Leach's personal bank account. As for the cash he said I don't know
00:01:29.760 what happened with the cash. I left out two words from her tweet there which are at the very top
00:01:35.100 when she says oh wow treating this as explosive treating it as a bombshell like Chris Barber has just
00:01:41.760 admitted that Tamara Leach was putting all the money in her personal bank account and then they don't know
00:01:46.060 what happened with the cash. The reality is that clip which I think was 22 seconds long condensed
00:01:53.520 what was a minutes long exchange that covered a range of these issues and it took it in a way that
00:02:01.520 deliberately misrepresented the actual discussions. Now the reason Chris Barber doesn't know what
00:02:06.960 happened with all of the cash and specifically that's referring to cash donations that were given
00:02:12.940 after all the account freezes after the GoFundMe was shut down after the court order prohibiting
00:02:18.300 people from donating to give send go and people were giving truckers cash. Chris Barber said yeah I
00:02:24.460 wasn't involved in that so I really don't know what happened. I know people were giving out envelopes
00:02:28.400 to truckers but I wasn't overseeing it. So when he's saying I don't know what happened all the cash he
00:02:32.860 means that he literally was not involved in that part of the operation. And the money going into
00:02:38.880 Tamara Leach's personal account this is like as old news as it gets because nothing has been
00:02:45.320 re-litigated and discussed more about the convoy than the money. What happened here was GoFundMe
00:02:51.740 initially released one million dollars of the funds that have been donated. They didn't have a corporation
00:02:57.740 set up at this early stage so that GoFundMe needed to give it to someone so Tamara Leach was the one who set
00:03:04.000 up the account. They had a plan in place to distribute the money so GoFundMe transferred a
00:03:09.400 million dollars into a personal bank account in Tamara Leach's name which was only used for convoy 1.00
00:03:15.880 funds. It wasn't the account that she used to buy her groceries or to go and buy a canoe from Canadian
00:03:21.500 Tire. I don't know if Tamara Leach has ever bought a canoe from Canadian Tire. That was just the weirdest
00:03:26.780 incident I could come up with as far as like a possible personal purchase. So I've been in Ottawa too long.
00:03:31.820 I'm starting to be weird.