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Divided, arguing and adrift: What’s left of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ one year later?

Everywhere Justin Long goes, Ottawa’s so-called “Freedom Convoy” goes with him.

It was an event, Long says, that restored his national pride to such a degree that he tattooed a reminder of the protest on the back of his left hand.

“Don’t tread on me” — the slogan of the American Revolution-era flag favoured by anti-government groups — is inked just above his wrist. In the centre is a Canada goose wearing a yellow vest, a nod to the Yellow Vesters, the progenitor protest movement to the “Freedom Convoy,” and holding a jerry can in its beak. And on his knuckles is a four-letter word: “Honk.”

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