Freedom Convoy Fiasco: Leaders Get Slapped with House Arrest 🏠👮♀️
Ontario court orders Freedom Convoy leaders to conditional 18 month sentence. The heads of the Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, just got their punishment. No jail time, but they're stuck on house arrest for a year, then curfew. The Crown wanted them locked up for way longer. The judg
TL:DR
The heads of the Freedom Convoy, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, just got their punishment. No jail time, but they're stuck on house arrest for a year, then curfew. The Crown wanted them locked up for way longer. The judge was like, "Gotta punish 'em, but can't stop future protests." This all stems from that whole trucker situation in Ottawa over the vax, where they blocked the whole city, and the government had to pull out the big guns... which they later got roasted for.
The Deets
Okay, so you remember that whole Freedom Convoy thing from 2022? Where the truckers rolled up to Ottawa to protest the Canadian government's COVID-19 vaccine policies and basically shut the city down? Yeah, well, the leaders of that whole shebang, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, just found out their fate.
The Ontario Court just handed them an 18-month conditional sentence. Translation? They're gonna be on house arrest for 12 months, then they gotta be in by curfew for the last six months. Plus, both gotta clock in 100 hours of community service. No cap.
But here's the tea: the Crown prosecutors were tryna send them away for SEVEN and EIGHT years! Like, chill. Lich's lawyer was relieved they dodged jail time and might even appeal the conviction.
Justice Perkins-McVey was all like, "We gotta deter illegal behavior, but we ain't tryna shut down future political protests." Makes sense, kinda? This all stems from that criminal mischief charge they got for basically causing chaos during the convoy.
Remember, the government even pulled out the Emergencies Act because things got so wild, but a federal court later said that was a bit of a sus move.
The judge said Lich and Barber were big players in organizing and keeping the convoy going. He also said they didn't find any evidence that they wanted people to get violent or destroy property. He said that the protest caused mad problems for people living and doing business in Ottawa.
Lich's lawyer said that she might appeal her conviction, because she thinks it's a freedom of speech thing.
So yeah, that's the latest. The truckers may be gone but the drama... the drama continues, fam.
Abbreviations Glossary
| Abbreviation | Full Form |
|---|---|
| No cap | Seriously, for real. |
| The tea | The gossip, the latest information. |
| Shebang | The whole event, the entire thing. |
| Sus | Suspicious, questionable. |
| Mad | A lot of. |