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Tracey Lindeman in Ottawa

Foreign money funding ‘extremism’ in Canada, says hacker

Trucks and protesters in Ottawa
Truckers’ protests over public health restrictions have paralysed Ottawa. Photograph: Alex Kent/Rex/Shutterstock

A hacker who leaked the names and locations of more than 90,000 people who donated money to the Canadian trucker convoy protest has said it exposed how money from abroad had funded “extremism” in the country.

In an exclusive interview, the hacker told the Guardian that Canada was “not safe from foreign political manipulation”. “You see a huge amount of money that isn’t even coming from Canada – that’s plain as day,” said the hacker, who belongs to the hacktivist group Anonymous.

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