In January 2022, protesters travelled to Ottawa seeking to debate the Canadian government's pandemic measures that had caused widespread bankruptcies, suicides, domestic abuse, addictions, and overdoses. They challenged the alarmist depiction of the virus as a clear and present danger to all. Media and politicians smeared the protesters as insurrectionists, homophobes, Nazis, anti-vaxxers, and arsonists. But was any of this true?

In Unjustified, Ray McGinnis examines testimony at the PublicOrder Emergency Commission that confirms the protesters were never dangerous as depicted. He chronicles court cases unfolding since the protests that raise questions about our judicial system, and details a recent federal court ruling that concluded the Emergencies Act invocation was unconstitutional and illegal. Unjustified is a call to readers to revisit assumptions about what happened at the Freedom Convoy. McGinnis invites us to question who benefits when media narratives are scaring us to death, and what is the cost to our democracy?

Ray McGinnis is the author of Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored and Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-inspired Path to Writing and Appreciating Sacred Poetry. He attended the Public Order Emergency Commission hearings in mid-November and heard over a dozen witnesses testify in person. Subsequently, he watched or read through the testimony of all 76 witnesses at the POEC. He also attended several days of the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. He is a senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy. He lives in Vancouver, Canada.

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