OTTAWA—Commenting on the trucker convoys that took place in 2022 in Ottawa and Coutts, Alta., prominent security analyst Wesley Wark said, “I think the history of the Freedom Convoy has really not settled into the Canadian consciousness.”

“It may be some time before we really figure out for ourselves what was involved here, what was at stake,” Wark, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, observed.

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Four years after the national trucker obstructions inspired in part by Albertan Tamara Lich, the anti-vaccine craze in that province has morphed into a separatist drive with the potential to splinter the country.

Like the 2022 trucker occupation in front of Parliament Hill, the Alberta separatist movement is not really about the proclaimed motivating cause.

More than anything else, both have been based on what is essentially a rejection of Canada as a progressive country. The people involved in the trucker revolt four years ago were channeling Donald Trump’s extreme right-wing populist agenda. A cause fed by internet-bred misinformation, paranoia, and stoked-up grievances.

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