Paperback: In January 2022, a small group of Canadian truckers fed up with nearly two years of Covid restrictions and a new vaccine mandate for cross-border essential workers decided to take their frustrations directly to the nation’s capital.
The Freedom Convoy quickly took on a life of its own as hundreds of trucks and thousands of protesters made the journey to Parliament Hill.
For the next three weeks, the trucker convoy led a protest unlike any other, complete with bouncy castles, pig roasts, and late-night dance parties.
But to the media and government, it was a hate-filled insurrection requiring the unprecedented invocation of the federal Emergencies Act.
In this timely and provocative book - The Freedom Convoy (2022) - author Andrew Lawton combines his own on-the-ground reporting and countless hours of interviews with the Freedom Convoy’s organizers and volunteers to tell, for the first time, the whole story of the convoy. It does not purport to be the definitive account of everything that happened in those three weeks as there are elements of the story Andrew has not addressed at length: the arguments for and against vaccines and vaccine mandates for one. Mainly, Andrew's book is about Canadians finally deciding they had had enough; about a scrappy group of truckers bringing a G-7 capital to its knees; and about an earnest, grassroots movement evolving into a multimillion-dollar operation with lawyers, accountants, a public relations strategy, back-channel police negotiations and multiple command centres spread out across Ottawa. Last but not least, it is about a protest that spawned spinoffs and copycats, not just across Canada but around the world.
About the author: Andrew Lawton is a senior journalist at True North and host of The Andrew Lawton Show. He previously hosted a daily talk show on Global News Radio. He has published written work across the world, including in the Washington Post, the National Post, the Toronto Sun, and on Global News. Andrew has appeared as a commentator on CBS, CTV, TVO, CTS, and on BBC World.
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