Newspapers and cable news outlets have been going wall-to-wall with “what-if” scenarios, often veering into paranoid hysteria. Liberal MP Anthony Housefather said he was worried this would be “similar to Charlottesville or the January 6 insurrection.”

I don’t deny that violence is a possibility, but if it rears its ugly head it should be swiftly shut down and unequivocally condemned. The leading promoters of the convoy have already pre-emptively denounced violence and said anyone inclined to go that route is unwelcome.

The trajectory in the Laurentian response to the convoy has been clear: first, they ignored; then, they vilified; then, in the absence of any evidence, they predicted violence.

https://andrewlawton.substack.com/p/the-convoys-opponents-need-violence