Freedom Convoy: Book by Andrew Lawton
'The inside story of three weeks that shook the world.'
Andrew Lawton’s book has now been published. It’s an even-handed, easy-to-digest overview of the Freedom Convoy. This is a big-picture sketch, an informative introduction to these historical events.
The book tells us about the public-facing leaders of the convoy - and about the politicians, the police, and the lawyers. What happened and in what order.
What did the Prime Minister say about respecting civil liberties versus what actually took place. Andrew was himself pepper sprayed by police, turned away from checkpoints even though he was a journalist, and threatened with arrest.
Readers of this blog will notice his account occasionally misses some of the nuance. For example, he says it was a “happy accident” that a “flatbed truck with a crane was prominently parked” in front of Parliament Hill. We know this was no accident - that Ben, the owner of that truck, was asked by organizers to move it there after they learned their secured-in-advance stage permit was useless. This was a smart, nimble, quick-thinking bunch.
Andrew’s reporting is professional and fair - and considerably more accurate than televised newscasts from that time. Indeed, the sharp contrast between the “dismissive and slanderous” (his words) mainstream media coverage and what he saw with his own eyes while visiting ‘Convoyland’ is a prominent theme of this book.
Highly recommended! Buy two copies - one for a friend.
See it on Amazon Canada here.
