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TORONTO (LifeSiteNews) — The Rebel News project ’Fight the Fines,’ dedicated to defending every Canadian facing a COVID-19 related ticket as a free service, has surpassed 10,000 donors.
The campaign, which successfully represented a British Columbia mother facing a criminal charge after she was jailed for not wearing a mask despite a medical exemption, originally had the goal of fighting 1,000 tickets nationwide. The project and a team of crowd-funded lawyers, thanks to massive donor support, has since doubled their initial goal.
The campaign site now states, “We have already taken over 2,000 cases, but we’re not stopping, because we want to defend every single Canadian who gets a lockdown ticket.”
Between the tax-deductible donation section, through the registered charity Democracy Fund, and the non-tax-deductible section, directly through Rebel News, the campaign has exceeded 13,000 total contributors.
On November 26, 2020, Rebel News, under the headship of Ezra Levant, launched the project titled ‘Fight the Fines’ to provide free legal defense for Canadians fined for COVID-19 “violations.”
Upon the initial launch, Levant made a video stating, “it is my goal to fight 1,000 tickets across Canada … one of them could be yours.”
“I want to show these tyrants, these premiers and mayors, and especially the ‘unelected health czars,’ that they’re wrong to think they can pick on people who can’t afford lawyers,” Levant continued.
Levant also said in the video that the cost of this 1,000-ticket campaign was going to be $200,000. Due to the project’s success and
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