It’s been a year since the Freedom Convoy descended on Ottawa to protest nearly two years of Covid-19 restrictions. For three weeks, thousands of demonstrators, bolstered by pick up trucks and semi-trailer trucks, filled the city’s downtown core.
It was the first demonstration of its magnitude in Canadian history.
Was the government justified in invoking the Emergencies Act? Was the convoy peaceful, or was in fact there a real threat of danger?
The Freedom Occupation seeks to uncover the truth about what really happened in Ottawa last year.
Distributed by True North, this documentary from Emmanuel Productions seeks to expose the real story behind the Freedom Convoy and to tell the whole story.
Rachel is a seasoned political reporter who’s covered government institutions from a variety of levels. A Carleton University journalism graduate, she was a multimedia reporter for three local Niagara newspapers. Her work has been published in the Toronto Star. Rachel was the inaugural recipient of the Political Matters internship, placing her at The Globe and Mail’s parliamentary bureau. She spent three years covering the federal government for iPolitics. Rachel is the Alberta correspondent for True North based in Edmonton.
Andrew Lawton is the managing editor of True North and host of The Andrew Lawton Show. He is the author of two bestselling books, including his most recent work, "Pierre Poilievre: A Political Life."
