Crown prosecutors say FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich has breached her bail conditions by agreeing to attend a ceremony to receive a "Freedom Award" next month, and that she should be sent back to jail to await trial.
The three men had participated in the Coutts protest on the Canada-U.S. border, which was sparked in solidarity with the FreedomConvoy in Ottawa to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
“You don't have to have a tinfoil hat to be worried about the issues of privacy and surveillance, especially in a context where … people who donated $50 to the [FreedomConvoy] truckers suddenly found their bank accounts frozen,” Mr. Ambler said.
Yes indeed, after a couple of dry runs in which many politicians and media activists tried desperately to portray the trucker-led FreedomConvoy of 2022 and the Sept. 20 Million March 4 Children protests as fuelled by Nazis, white supremacists, and others
OTTAWA—Crown prosecutors say FreedomConvoy organizer Tamara Lich had an interaction with convoy spokesperson Tom Marazzo at a June 16 event in Toronto in violation of her bail conditions.
Bail, Rearrest
As a key FreedomConvoy organizer, Lich was first arrested on Feb. 17 and charged with counselling to commit mischief and obstructing police, among other charges.
FreedomConvoy
The protest at the Coutts border was one of several blockades of Canada-U.S. border crossings, held in solidarity with the truckers' FreedomConvoy protest in Ottawa.
Van Huigenbos became involved in the demonstration near the Canada-U.S. border at Coutts in early 2022, which was sparked in solidarity with the FreedomConvoy in Ottawa opposing COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
“If the freezing of bank accounts during the freedomconvoy is any indication, we still can’t trust Parliament to never enact unconstitutional laws,” said the foundation's litigation director Christine Van Geyn.
"My primary concern is individuals or groups with potential to deliberately instigate conflict with the FreedomConvoy movement and to discredit the FreedomConvoy," the unnamed witness said in the affidavit.
The Public Order Emergency Commission is investigating use of the act to end the FreedomConvoy protest, which paralyzed downtown Ottawa for more than three weeks in the winter of 2022.
Carbert, Christopher Lysak, Jerry Morin, and Anthony Olienick, were all arrested during the FreedomConvoy protests on attempted murder charges in February 2022.
One communication said: “Pat King represents only himself, he does not represent the freedomconvoy.”
FreedomConvoy organizer Benjamin Dichter speaks at a press conference in Ottawa on Jan. 30, 2022.
One is under the name The People’s Convoy, and another is under the name FreedomConvoy USA 2022.
Brian Brase, one of the core truckers organizing The People’s Convoy, told The Epoch Times that more routes will be released as the convoy moves.
The protest near the Canada-U.S. border was sparked in solidarity with the FreedomConvoy in Ottawa to oppose COVID-19 vaccine mandates and other pandemic restrictions.
Lawton was the author of the 2022 book “The FreedomConvoy: The Inside Story of Three Weeks that Shook the World,” and the Conservatives say that as a journalist Lawton communicated with a variety of sources.
Freedom Corp lawyer Brendan Miller earlier this week alleged that Enterprise Canada principal Brian Fox was the individual who was holding a Nazi flag in the first days of the FreedomConvoy protest in Ottawa.
It coincides with the anniversary of the beginning of "FreedomConvoy" protests on Saturday, with Shanahan quipping that there are no honking sounds ringing through Parliament like there were last year.
Chris Carbert, Christopher Lysak, Jerry Morin, and Anthony Olienick were arrested in February 2022 during the FreedomConvoy protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and pandemic-related restrictions.
