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Verdict for Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber coming next spring

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By Anthony Murdoch

Tamara Lich says her and co-leader Chris Barber’s verdict for their involvement in 2022 protests against Canada’s COVID mandates will be revealed on March 12. Lich and Barber face up to 10 years in prison.

Freedom Convoy leader Tamara Lich says her and co-leader Chris Barber’s verdict for being the face of the protests in 2022 that called for an end to all COVID mandates in Canada will be made on March 12, 2025.

Lich made the announcement in an X post on December 4, relaying her dissatisfaction that pro-Hamas protestors, who had swarmed and occupied government buildings in the first week of the month, got away more or less without charges.

“On the same day protestors swarmed, overcame and occupied a government building in our nations capital, joined & even supported by some elected officials, @ChrisBarber1975 and I received news of a verdict date for The Longest Mischief Trial of All Time,” she wrote.

Lich blasted the fact that the protests that occurred in Ottawa resulted in no apparent “charges” nor “threats of ten years in prison.”

“No snipers. No frozen bank accounts. No threats to take their pets or children, their business or vehicle insurance or their drivers licenses. No trampling horses, no battered senior citizens, no police beating protestors with their firearms. Nothing,” she wrote.

Lich said she lamented the fact that their verdict is still some three months away. However, she said that “Vindication is coming!”

In another post on X, Lich blasted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Canada, saying there is a double standard of justice on display.

“In Trudeau’s Canada, it’s ok to violently take over and occupy a government building if you’re wearing approved scarves and shouting approved slogans,” she wrote.

Lich observed that if one is a “regular” hard-working “Canadian” who simply wants the “return of your God given rights and freedoms, and do so in a peaceful manner,” it’s off to “jail for you, two and a half years of crippling lawfare, and the longest mischief trial of all time.”

As reported by LifeSiteNews, Lich and Barber face a possible 10-year prison sentence for their role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy. LifeSiteNews reported extensively on their over-year-long trial.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, some protesters charged for participating in the Freedom Convoy have seen their charges dropped.

In early 2022, thousands of Canadians from coast to coast came to Ottawa to demand an end to COVID mandates in all forms. Despite the peaceful nature of the protest, Trudeau’s government invoked the Emergencies Act on February 14. Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23.

The EA controversially allowed the government to freeze the bank accounts of protesters, conscript tow truck drivers, and arrest people for participating in assemblies the government deemed illegal.

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Court compels RCMP and TD Bank to hand over records related to freezing of peaceful protestor’s bank accounts

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Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms

The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announces that a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice has ordered the RCMP and TD Bank to produce records relating to the freezing of Mr. Evan Blackman’s bank accounts during the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest.

Mr. Blackman was arrested in downtown Ottawa on February 18, 2022, during the federal government’s unprecedented use of the Emergencies Act. He was charged with mischief and obstruction, but he was acquitted of these charges at trial in October 2023. 

However, the Crown appealed Mr. Blackman’s acquittal in 2024, and a new trial is scheduled to begin on August 14, 2025. 

Mr. Blackman is seeking the records concerning the freezing of his bank accounts to support an application under the Charter at his upcoming retrial.

His lawyers plan to argue that the freezing of his bank accounts was a serious violation of his rights, and are asking the court to stay the case accordingly.

“The freezing of Mr. Blackman’s bank accounts was an extreme overreach on the part of the police and the federal government,” says constitutional lawyer Chris Fleury.

“These records will hopefully reveal exactly how and why Mr. Blackman’s accounts were frozen,” he says.

Mr. Blackman agreed, saying, “I’m delighted that we will finally get records that may reveal why my bank accounts were frozen.” 

This ruling marks a significant step in what is believed to be the first criminal case in Canada involving a proposed Charter application based on the freezing of personal bank accounts under the Emergencies Act. 

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COVID mandates protester in Canada released on bail after over 2 years in jail

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Chris Carbert (right) and Anthony Olienick, two of the Coutts Four were jailed for over two years for mischief and unlawful possession of a firearm for a dangerous purpose.

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By Clare Marie Merkowsky

The “Coutts Four” were painted as dangerous terrorists and their arrest was used as justification for the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Trudeau government, which allowed it to use draconian measures to end both the Coutts blockade and the much larger Freedom Convoy

COVID protestor Chris Carbert has been granted bail pending his appeal after spending over two years in prison.

On June 30, Alberta Court of Appeal Justice Jo-Anne Strekaf ordered the release of Chris Carbert pending his appeal of charges of mischief and weapons offenses stemming from the Coutts border blockade, which protested COVID mandates in 2022.

“[Carbert] has demonstrated that there is no substantial likelihood that he will commit a criminal offence or interfere with the administration of justice if released from detention pending the hearing of his appeals,” Strekaf ruled.

“If the applicant and the Crown are able to agree upon a release plan and draft order to propose to the court, that is to be submitted by July 14,” she continued.

Carbert’s appeal is expected to be heard in September. So far, Carbert has spent over two years in prison, when he was charged with conspiracy to commit murder during the protest in Coutts, which ran parallel to but was not officially affiliated with the Freedom Convoy taking place in Ottawa.

Later, he was acquitted of the conspiracy to commit murder charge but still found guilty of the lesser charges of unlawful possession of a firearm for a dangerous purpose and mischief over $5,000.

In September 2024, Chris Carbert was sentenced to six and a half years for his role in the protest. However, he is not expected to serve his full sentence, as he was issued four years of credit for time already served. Carbert is also prohibited from owning firearms for life and required to provide a DNA sample.

Carbert was arrested alongside Anthony Olienick, Christopher Lysak and Jerry Morin, with the latter two pleading guilty to lesser charges to avoid trial. At the time, the “Coutts Four” were painted as dangerous terrorists and their arrest was used as justification for the invocation of the Emergencies Act by the Trudeau government, which allowed it to use draconian measures to end both the Coutts blockade and the much larger Freedom Convoy occurring thousands of kilometers away in Ottawa.

Under the Emergency Act (EA), the Liberal government froze the bank accounts of Canadians who donated to the Freedom Convoy. Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23 after the protesters had been cleared out. At the time, seven of Canada’s 10 provinces opposed Trudeau’s use of the EA.

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