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The Freedom Convoy (French: Convoi de la Liberté) is an ongoing protest in Canada against COVID-19 vaccine requirements for truckers to re-enter the country by land introduced by the Government of Canada on January 15, 2022. Originally composed of several routes traversing all of the Canadian provinces, the truck convoys converged on Ottawa on January 29, 2022, with a rally at Parliament Hill. The trucking convoys were then joined by pedestrian protesters. The protest continued into February. According to The Guardian, the demonstration developed to include the "repeal of all public health measures", expressed a number of "antigovernment grievances", particularly against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and called for "the overthrow of the federal government".Both Canada and the United States accommodated unvaccinated cross-border truckers with an exemption from the new COVID-19 regulations implemented by both countries in the fall of 2021, to prevent supply chain disruptions. The exemptions for Canadian truckers ended on January 15, 2022, and the United States Department of Homeland Security exemption ended a week later on January 22, 2022. The Canadian Trucking Alliance (CTA) estimates that 85% of the 120,000 Canadian truck drivers are already vaccinated against COVID-19, and that these mandates would potentially impact 26,000 of the 160,000 drivers in both the United States and Canada who regularly cross the border.The convoy has been condemned by trucking industry groups, and the Canadian Trucking Alliance reported that a large number of protesters had no connection to trucking. On January 27, Prime Minister Trudeau said that almost 90% of Canadians were vaccinated, as were many truckers in Canada, and that a "small fringe minority of people" in the convoy do not "represent the views of Canadians." A January 29 CTA statement cautioned the public that a "great number of protestors" with no connection to the trucking industry "have a separate agenda beyond a disagreement over cross border vaccine requirements." Several politicians and media sources raised concerns that organizers and groups involved with the protest have had involvement with white nationalism, racism, Islamophobia, the QAnon conspiracy theory, and far-right groups, including those who promote violence. Illegal acts committed by protesters drew widespread condemnation. Protesters were seen desecrating the statue of national hero Terry Fox, the National War Memorial, and the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and several emergency vehicles were attacked with rocks.