Two of the main Freedom Convoy organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, are charged with mischief, counsel to commit mischief, intimidation and obstructing police.
was led away from supporters in handcuffs on the snowy streets of Ottawa in 2022, she threw a single phrase over her shoulder.” movement as the officers at each of her elbows walked her to the waiting cruiser.
“We do not expect this to be the trial of the ‘Freedom Convoy,”’ Lich and Barber’s lawyers said in a joint statement Friday. The “Freedom Convoy” was born out of a conversation between Barber, who owns a Saskatchewan trucking business, and fellow trucker Bridgette Belton on the social media platform TikTok, who had both been venting online about COVID-19 public health measures in early 2022.They specifically wanted to find a way to protest vaccine mandates that were coming into effect for truckers who crossed the U.S. border and would be forced to quarantine for 14 days if they were unvaccinated.
The Crown hopes to establish that Barber and Lich worked together in lockstep, so that evidence against one of them will apply to both.
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