BREAKING: Tamara Lich will be sentenced today. Follow my live courtroom updates.

Doug Ford’s prosecutors are demanding shockingly harsh prison sentences — seven years for Tamara Lich and eight for Chris Barber — despite legal precedents showing that peaceful, first-time political protesters typically receive no jail time at all.

Ezra Levant
  |   October 07, 2025   |   News Analysis   |   2 Comments

I’m at the courthouse in Ottawa. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are about to be sentenced for their roles in the 2022 trucker convoy.

Legal precedent says that a first offence for politically-motivated mischief, where there was no violence involved, results in ZERO jail time. I’ve sat through several of the recent sentencing hearings for various truckers across Canada, and I’ve heard all of the precedents — typically Greenpeace protesters blocking a bridge or a logging road, or an anti-oil protester blocking a pipeline.

Time after time, judges give people a warning and let them go. (And remember: Tamara has already spent 49 days in jail awaiting trial.)

Incredibly, Doug Ford’s prosecutors are demanding SEVEN YEARS in prison for Tamara, and EIGHT YEARS for Chris.

There is no legal precedent for that. It’s a disgrace — frankly, it’s surprising to me that any lawyer would actually seek such an astoundingly unconstitutional sentence. But that’s what’s happening today.

Please follow along as I live-tweet the proceedings — that should start at 10 a.m. ET, or 8 a.m. MT. 

And if you can, please chip in to Tamara’s crowdfunding campaign to cover her legal bills.

Tamara is going to appeal her conviction, so no matter what happens in court today, we’ll be back. We’ve got to help her cover her legal bills. If you can, please do — you’ll actually get a charitable tax receipt for that.

Please help Tamara Lich fight back against this outrageous political prosecution!

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The Democracy Fund, a registered Canadian charity, is continuing to crowdfund Tamara Lich’s legal defence and appeal following her sentence of 18 months of house arrest for her role in the 2022 Freedom Convoy protest.

Tamara has filed her appeal challenging the conviction. She is represented by her lawyer, Lawrence Greenspon.

Tamara — a mom and grandmother from Medicine Hat, Alberta — has already spent 49 days in jail awaiting trial and has faced a legal process spanning more than three years. She now lives under significant restrictions while the appeal proceeds.

If you believe peaceful political protest should not be criminalized, please chip in today to help cover Tamara’s ongoing legal costs.

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Ezra Levant

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Ezra Levant is the founder and owner of Rebel News and the host of The Ezra Levant Show. He is the author of multiple best-selling books, including Ethical Oil, The Libranos, China Virus, and most recently, Trudeau's Secret Plan.

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  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-10-07 19:48:35 -0400
    John nailed it. Try Trudeau and Ford for their panic-demic persecution of citizens who dissented.
  • John H Whitlock
    commented 2025-10-07 13:17:40 -0400
    This is an utter and absolute ABOMINATION!!!! Justin Trudeau should be on trial for illegally unleashing the Emergencies Act on law-abiding Canadian citizens, and for imposing harmful pandemic mandates on Canadians, that resulted in many deaths. Doug Ford is a DISGRACE!!!!