The discontented COVID-protection protesters: who are they?

'We haven’t seen anything as democratically dysfunctional and as threatening to the social cohesion of the country as what’s happening now,' says pollster Frank Graves.

A 'Freedom Convoy' protester, pictured Feb. 14, 2022, on Wellington Street. Pollster Frank Graves says the cohort who supported the three-week occupation of Ottawa's downtown core is typically male—in the 35-to-55-year-old range; live in non-urban areas—particularly on the Prairies, but not likely in Quebec or Atlantic Canada—and are 'deeply pessimistic about their economic future.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

February 28, 2022

They occupied Ottawa for weeks and established blockades at the Canada-U.S. border. At the genesis of the "Freedom Convoy 2022," the message appeared to be truckers opposed to the vaccine mandate, Canada—and the United States—imposed in order for their crossing the border. But on the first full...

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