Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words Cheap Foreign Labor, Managerial Class Killing America’s ‘Last Cowboys’ | Gord Magill & Jack Fowler
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Feb 17, 2026 Gord Magill, author and former trucker, offers a short, sharp look at trucking today. He traces the industry’s fall from cultural icon to endangered trade. He discusses cheap foreign labor, safety and vetting failures, and how corporate and policy choices reshaped the profession.
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Trucking On A Precipice
- The trucking industry sits on a precipice of public trust and operational dysfunction.
- Gord Magill links perception collapse to policy choices that favor managerial control over frontline competency.
Freedom Convoy: A Joyful Protest
- Gord Magill drove to Ottawa for the Freedom Convoy and describes the opening weekend as joyful and loving.
- He calls the event like "Mardi Gras or Burning Man minus 30" and says government portrayals were lies.
State Suppression After The Convoy
- The Canadian government actively planned to smear and legally suppress the convoy according to Gord Magill.
- He argues the four-year legal campaign against participants exemplifies managerial overreach and narco-tyranny tactics.
