Louis Riel and the Metis Rebels would have understood the Freedom Convoy

The truckers’ protest in the winter of 2022 against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate not only continues to make headlines as the trials of prominent protesters drag on and verdicts are sporadically delivered, but the Freedom Convoy itself remains a touchstone in the ongoing debate about the country’s direction after a decade of increasingly left-wing Liberal government. The movement’s implications continue to resonate.

The Freedom Convoy wasn’t just a protest against forced vaccination, it was a nationwide outcry against what many perceived as an unprecedented experiment in authoritarianism. Thousands of truckers and thousands more supporters roared across the country from Princ...
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