Ray McGinnis is a graduate of the Centre for Christian Studies with a B.A. from the University of Toronto, McGinnis worked as an educator in the United Church of Canada for 18 years. For two decades he taught journal writing, poetry and memoir at writing workshops at churches, health care settings, grief support groups, professional development events and retreats across North America. During the Freedom Convoy, he began to write commentaries about the government and media depiction of the protests and the invocation of the Emergencies Act. His forthcoming book discusses these protests, the public inquiry and its report. Over the past few years, Ray has been interviewed by over 150 media outlets across North America and Europe. He is the author of Unanswered Questions: What the September Eleventh Families Asked and the 9/11 Commission Ignored (2021) and Writing the Sacred: A Psalm-inspired Path to Appreciating and Writing Sacred Poetry (2005).

Author of Unjustified: The Freedom Convoy, the Emergencies Act and the Inquiry that Got It Wrong.