There is the convoy that most Canadians witnessed or experienced this past winter, in which thousands of protesters effectively took hostage a city and several border crossings for weeks. Having traded air horns for bullhorns, the convoy sought to compel the federal government through a campaign of endless honking, slow rolls targeting schools and airports, and disruption to the lives of Ottawa residents, which many participants gleefully relished.
Then there is the convoy the participants believe they joined. This reality was described by its leaders as a “lovefest” and like “Woodstock.” They argued that Canadians by the thousands came out to end the torture of vaccine mandates through hugging one another and expressing their democratic right to protest.