The polls made that clear: Nearly half of Canadians polled said they “may not agree with everything the people who have taken part in the truck protests in Ottawa have said, but their frustration is legitimate and worthy of our sympathy.” Among those under 35, that support jumped to 60 per cent. “People desperately want to be a part of something bigger than themselves and the anti-mandate movement is openly extending them that opportunity without requiring that they belong to an activist subculture,” organizer Emma Jackson wrote in The Breach. “What we’re currently witnessing is a troubling sign that COVID-19 could become a generational-defining moment of politicization for the Right— radicalizing tens of thousands who are disaffected by the system and directing them straight into the welcoming arms of the far-right.”

— The Poilievre Project by Martin Lukacs (28%)