They were also joined by other truckers and people from all across the country. Hundreds of trucks that came from Quebec and the Maritime, joining up in Ottawa. They formed what was possibly the most peaceful protest in the history of humanity, proportional to its size. They inspired people all across the world to follow in their footsteps, and moved the Overton window. They are the reason that the covid measures ended as abruptly as they did, when just days before the Convoy happened, politicians across Canada were still talking about making them even stricter, despite never seeing any evidence that they helped.