The protests were linked to concerns over personal freedoms and government overreach. Mainly related to COVID-19 mandates and stay at home recommendations.
Supporters saw the movement as a grassroots stand for liberty against government overreach.
*edit the freedom convoy organised 3 years ago in 2022 as pointed out by commenter’s.
The lab leak theory was a Sinophobia distraction at the time. Why get angry at your government not doing more to protect you when you can hate China.
And it didn’t matter at the time. Our needed actions would be exactly the same … unless we wanted to start an actual war.
Now’s the time it does matter, if it wasn’t disproven. Now you can look back and try to pursue criminal action, if it were rekevant