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Jan 30 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Heading home after a busy, loud, and hopeful weekend in Ottawa covering the Truckers for Freedom Convoy. I have a feeling I'll be back soon, and will have lots of footage, interviews and analysis to release over the coming days, so stay tuned.
A huge thanks to the fantastic team at @TrueNorthCentre on the ground in Ottawa and back in the offices for all the support to those of us in the field. If you're able to assist these efforts, we're set up for donations at donate.tnc.news
A big thank you as well to my newsletter subscribers. I'll have a postmortem for you all in the next couple of days, so make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it! andrewlawton.substack.com
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Jan 31
"We are not intimidated by those who hurl insults and abuse at small business workers and steal food from the homeless. We won't give into those who fly racist flags. We won't cave to those who engage in vandalism or dishonour the memory of our veterans," Trudeau says.
Trudeau has decided to attempt to turn the country against the peaceful protesters, by attempting to malign the whole movement by the outliers who have been condemned and denounced by the convoy's organizers and supporters.
"The behaviour on display this weekend does not represent you," Trudeau says to truckers.
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Jan 30
At a press conference hosted by organizers of the trucker freedom convoy GoFundMe, @Tamara_MVC and @BJdichter. Only independent journalists were invited.
Dichter says this is going to be a “lengthy” protest, notes private support by a lot of police officers.
Yesterday was “just an amazing day,” Dichter says.
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Jan 29
I'd like to set the record straight on some of the controversies of which I've been made away at today's freedom convoy rally. Oddly, I've only learned of these things on Twitter now that I'm back at my hotel, because they are genuine outliers.
The adornments on the Terry Fox statue were wrong, and shouldn't be there. Fortunately there doesn't appear to be anything on there that isn't removable. (The pearl-clutching from those backing permanent defacement of statues is cute).
No one should ever treat a war memorial like a parking lot. It looked from the photo like there were two cars, both of which were swiftly removed. Good.
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Jan 29
A few thoughts about the freedom convoy rally in Ottawa having been walking around for the last six hours:

The tone is not anger, but excitement. This is a huge block party. There's music, dancing, beer, pot, cheering, hugging, honking. People are just having a good time.
Based on signs and flags, it looks like at least 40 per cent of the crowd are French or from Quebec. My Quebecois colleague suggested much of this may be because the Quebec government has been so totalitarian in its Covid response that it poked the bear so to speak.
Very significant Indigenous representation. Mostly from Ontario and Quebec. Vaccination rates are lower in Indigenous communities, so it stands to reason that vaccine mandates disproportionately affect them. A lot of hugs between white and Indigenous people meeting and chatting.
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Jan 29
It's 8:35am in Ottawa, and the Truckers for Freedom Convoy is rolling into town today. The honking and cheering has already started. Not quite as loud as it was last night, but getting there.
I'm here with a crew from @TrueNorthCentre, and we've also got a crack team supporting us from afar. We'll be sharing updates all day, and telling the real story of this incredible grassroots movement.
If you see me out and about, come say hello!
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Jan 27
Conservative leader Erin O'Toole says the trucker convoy on its way to Ottawa is a "symbol of the fatigue" Canadians have with the last two years of Covid restrictions.
O'Toole says Conservatives have always been against mandates, and vows to meet with truckers tomorrow.
"This convoy...represents people who feel like they do not have a voice in Ottawa. I want you to know...we will try to make sure that everyone has a voice and no one is left behind in the pandemic, in the cost of living crisis," O'Toole says.
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