CHL is right, both are/were indeed protests, I am not sure how you could define the convoy as otherwise.
Now, what it did do was the opposite of what it intended IMO, and so you can say it was an abject failure. It just caused the majority of Canadians who previously were largely apathetic about the issue to turn violently acerbic against the protestors because their methods were stupidly obtuse. It was not a successful protest because they forgot that the first rule to sustaining any campaign of influence is to build allies. They sucked at building allies and always intended on widening the gulf. Foolish!
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