The Media War on Canadian Truckers: Is Freedom Public Enemy Number One?

Trucks sit parked on Wellington Street near the Parliament Buildings as truckers and their supporters take part in a convoy to protest COVID-19 vaccine mandates for cross-border truck drivers in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, on Jan. 29, 2022. Patrick Doyle/File Photo/Reuters

Commentary 

The denigration of the Canadian trucker protest convoy exemplifies how freedom is now the biggest villain of the COVID-19 pandemic. A Washington Post cartoonist portrayed the trucker convoy as “fascism” incarnate in a now-deleted Twitter post, while another Post column derided the “toxic ‘Freedom Convoy.’”