LETHBRIDGE, Alta. — A Crown prosecutor says two men convicted of mischief and weapons offences at the 2022 border blockade at Coutts, Alta.
, should spend nine years in prison, but defence lawyers think their clients have already spent enough time behind bars.
Crown prosecutor Steven Johnston told a sentencing hearing Thursday that the case isn’t about the right to protest government policy and that believing in a cause doesn't excuse committing a crime. Olienick and Carbert were charged after RCMP found guns, ammunition and body armour in trailers near the blockade at the key Canada-U. S. border crossing."Mr. Carbert and Mr. Olienick believed they were at war. They were prepared to die for their cause. The very real risk is that a firefight would have occurred," Johnston said.
Beyak said Carbert's moral culpability is at the lower end of the scale and that her client ended up at the protest due to isolation, spending too much time looking at conspiracy theories on the internet and getting angry about the COVID-19 restrictions. "He's had his time where it's been very difficult the last two and a half years and I would suggest he's learned his lesson," Burns said.
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