Chapter 80: Freedom Convoy

313       One of the Canadian organizations . . . “Taking Back Our Freedoms”  Justin Ling, “Conservative MPs Met With Anti-Vaccine Leaders Inside Parliament as Convoy Plans to Return to Ottawa,” VICE, www.vice.com/en/article/conservative-mps-anti-vaccine-convoy-ottawa. 
 
313       elderly Austrian Canadian billionaire . . . later would be arrested for . . .  “New Charges Against Canadian Billionaire Frank Stronach Involve 7 Additional Complainants,” Associated Press (AP) News, apnews.com/article/stronach-sexual-assault-seven-new-complainants-5f769a44b0dcfe4a72d8ae53cf39b6bc.
 
313       “truckers have become a strong voice . . .”  Frank Stronach, “Frank Stronach: Canada’s Truckers Remind Us Why Freedom Is Worth Fighting For,” National Post, February 11, 2022, nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-canadas-truckers-remind-us-why-freedom-is-worth-fighting-for.
 
313       “And that is why for many of us . . . modern-day freedom fighters”  Stronach, “Frank Stronach: Canada’s Truckers Remind Us Why Freedom Is Worth Fighting For,” nationalpost.com/opinion/frank-stronach-canadas-truckers-remind-us-why-freedom-is-worth-fighting-for.
 
313       “the Latvian nation, language and culture . . .”  Quoted in Vassilis Petsinis and Louis Wierenga, Report on Radical Right Populism in Estonia and Latvia, POPREBEL Working Paper no. 7, 2022, populism-europe.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Working-Paper-7.pdf, 7.
 
313       “Will school children be raised as patriots?”  Raivis Dzintars quoted in “Latvia’s new voice from the right,” The Baltic Times, October 27, 2010, www.baltictimes.com/news/articles/27261.
 
313       “in an environment of lack of freedom” Marko Milačić quoted in “Milačić: It Is a Sacred Duty to Return Montenegro to the Path of its Ancestors,” Vijesti, January 4, 2019, en.vijesti.me/news-b/politika/13951/the-saint-of-the-world%2C-it-is-the-duty-to-return-Montenegro-to-the-path-of-its-ancestors.
 
313       named a series of “fathers” . . . including . . .  “Milačić: It Is a Sacred Duty to Return Montenegro to the Path of its Ancestors,” en.vijesti.me/news-b/politika/13951/the-saint-of-the-world%2C-it-is-the-duty-to-return-Montenegro-to-the-path-of-its-ancestors.
 
313       wrote Miljanov’s name  Michael Koziol, “Christchurch Shooter’s Manifesto Reveals an Obsession with White Supremacy over Muslims,” March 15, 2019, www.smh.com.au/world/oceania/christchurch-shooter-s-manifesto-reveals-an-obsession-with-white-supremacy-over-muslims-20190315-p514ko.html.
 
313–314 “The time has come for modern patriotism . . .”  Marko Milačić quoted in “Milačić Presented the Real Montenegro: ‘For the Defense of Both the Wallet and Njegoš,’” Vijesti, January 29, 2018, www.vijesti.me/vijesti/politika/45859/milacic-predstavio-pravu-crnu-goru-za-odbranu-i-novcanika-i-njegosa, via Google Translate.
 
314      “return this country to its right path . . .” Milačić quoted in “Milačić: It Is a Sacred Duty to Return Montenegro to the Path of its Ancestors,” en.vijesti.me/news-b/politika/13951/the-saint-of-the-world%2C-it-is-the-duty-to-return-Montenegro-to-the-path-of-its-ancestors.
 
314      has connected its party . . . starting in 711 Farkhani et al., “Islamophobia in Spain: Inheritance of Reconquista and Hate Political Rhetoric,” Journal of Al-Tamaddun 16, no. 1 (2021), ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JAT/article/view/28117/13146, 70–72; and David Klepper, “Anti-Muslim Twitter Feed in Spain: ‘A Recipe for Disaster,’” AP News, May 5, 2023, apnews.com/article/trump-spain-vox-twitter-islam-immigration-0d11cff062fb82a047cac501b21ea95c.
 
314      “Reconquista” . . . had been completed by 1492 Farkhani et al., “Islamophobia in Spain: Inheritance of Reconquista and Hate Political Rhetoric,” ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JAT/article/view/28117/13146, 72–73.
 
314      fashioned their party . . . against Muslim “invaders”  Farkhani, et al., “Islamophobia in Spain: Inheritance of Reconquista and Hate Political Rhetoric,” ejournal.um.edu.my/index.php/JAT/article/view/28117/13146, 72–73; and Klepper, “Anti-Muslim Twitter Feed in Spain: ‘A Recipe for Disaster,’” apnews.com/article/trump-spain-vox-twitter-islam-immigration-0d11cff062fb82a047cac501b21ea95c.
 
314      “witnessing the steady decline of . . .”  United Australia Party, “Senator Ralph Babet's first speech in the Australian Parliament 03/08/22,” YouTube, August 3, 2022, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sK79ntoL5U, 17:44–17:59.
 
314      “terms like ‘white privilege’ and ‘gender fluidity’ . . .”  United Australia Party, “Senator Ralph Babet’s First Speech in the Australian Parliament 03/08/22,” YouTube, www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sK79ntoL5U,18:09–18:16 (“terms like”), 18:34–18:44 (“a vision”).
 
314      a penal colony. . . genocide of Aboriginal Australians . . . of 165,000 incarcerated White people  Asafa Jalata, “The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians,” SAGE Open 3, no. 3 (2013), journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/2158244013499143, 1–2, 8–10; and “The Convict Experience,” State Library of New South Wales, accessed May 2, 2025, www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/convict-experience.
 
314      from Wales, England, Scotland, and Ireland between 1788 and 1868  “Convict Transportation Peaks,” National Museum of Australia, accessed September 24, 2025, www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/convict-transportation-peaks.
 
314      slammed . . . which removed images of . . . like Terry Fox Mitchell Consky, “Feds Under Fire for Passport Redesign, Legion Calls It ‘a Poor Decision' to Replace Iconic Images,” CTV News, May 10, 2023, www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/feds-under-fire-for-passport-redesign-legion-calls-it-a-poor-decision-to-replace-iconic-images.
 
314      “We can have no heroes” . . . “and our history must be portrayed . . .”  Pierre Poilievre, Twitter, May 13, 2023, 10:00 p.m., video, x.com/PierrePoilievre/status/1657566423311343618,2:45–2:54.