Two years ago today, thousands of truckers and supporters from around the country convoyed to Ottawa for an indefinite protest against extreme covid policies. The protest lasted for almost 3 weeks despite coordinated attacks and smears by media and all levels of government. It eventually shook the Canadian political landscape and broke the spell of the covid mass psychosis for millions around the world, becoming one of the most significant peaceful protests in the history of the country. In the years before the protest, the federal government had banned about a fifth of the population from boarding planes, trains or chartered boats. These individuals had become members of a new sociopolitical class - "the unvaccinated" - people that would not, or could not, take a pharmaceutical intervention the state had prescribed, ostensibly in response to fears about covid. While the law was publicly justified as necessary to slow the spread of respiratory illness, Public Health Officials would later state under sworn cross-examination that they had never recommended the policy in the first place. In conjunction with a US border policy in place, the policy had the effect of prohibiting the "unvaccinated" from leaving the country. While the policy would end up lasting for two years, at no point prior to the protest had there been any suggestion of an end date. Rather, this was described as the new normal, a new international standard. The "unvaccinated" were further prohibited from working for the government or in many federally regulated fields. Some provincial governments had banned socialization with "the unvaccinated". They were legally barred from weddings and funerals, and from going to all manner of public venues such as restaurants, bars, clubs, theaters, swimming pools and other public amenities. Led by politicians and the media, the "unvaccinated" became a public scapegoat for people's fears about covid, and people began to blame them for people dying from respiratory illness. The public clamored for increasingly harsh punishments on the unvaccinated including house arrest, having their children removed, being removed to "quarantine camps", and being denied health care. This bloodlust rose to the point that patients that had already been approved to be on the transplant list were subsequently removed when the fear of the "unvaccinated" reached a fever pitch, leading to their inevitable deaths. In some jurisdictions, such as BC, the hatred of the "unvaccinated" was such that to this day the "unvaccinated" cannot work as nurses or doctors in the province. Anybody who criticized any of this was likely to be de-platformed, lose their job and be excommunicated from any social groups. While millions around the country despaired and believed themselves alone, the Freedom Convoy shattered that illusions and united a broken people. The government ultimately broke the indefinite protest of the Freedom Convoy with unusual cruelty and by abandoning due process and the ordinary civil order. Protestors had their bank accounts frozen by government decree. Police arbitrarily declared parts of Ottawa "no-go" zones and performed mass arrests using shock troop tactics. And though the vaccine passport was not terminated by the end of the protest, it was the beginning of the end. Premiers began to publicly state that perhaps the covid measures had gone too far; the leader of the official opposition who was silent when the passport was put in place was turfed, replaced with a pro-freedom candidate. The Prime Minister, for whom the vaccine passport was his signature policy, was thoroughly embarrassed on the national and international stage, and his reputation only declined from that time. The protest opened the flood gates for public criticism of the covid measures, and showed the lie to them for all to see, which would eventually undermine any meaningful remaining public support for these insane, draconian covid policies. Hug a trucker, for you have them to thank not only for your food and goods, but now also for the continuation of this decent, civil society we almost lost. #FreedomConvoy2022