OTTAWA — After 45 days of evidence and legal arguments the criminal trial of 'Freedom Convoy' organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is finally at an end. A verdict could be as much as six months away.
OTTAWA — After 45 days of evidence and legal arguments the criminal trial of"Freedom Convoy" organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber is finally at an end."I don’t know in this moment when I will be in a position to give my decision," Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said Friday.
Lich, who became something of a figurehead in the protest, and Barber, one of the original organizers, drove into Ottawa together as part of a massive convoy of big rigs that parked on the streets around Parliament Hill and nearby residential areas and refused to leave until their demands were met. The defence has argued that the two were exercising their fundamental rights as part of a legal protest, and did not break the law themselves.
In calling on protesters to “hold the line,” Lich and Barber “crossed the line” from peaceful protest into criminal activity, the Crown asserts. Greenspon called the Crown’s strategy unprecedented in a case where their common goal, to protest for policy change, is legal.
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