'How is this justice?': Poilievre condemns prosecution of Freedom Convoy organizers

With the prosecution seeking severe sentences for Freedom Convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre calls out Canada's broken justice system.

 

Two prominent organizers of the Freedom Convoy are facing stiff prison terms as Crown prosecutors pursue lengthy sentences against the 2022 civil liberties demonstration — a decision that has drawn condemnation from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre.

Taking to social media, Tamara Lich shared news that the Crown is seeking a seven-year sentence against her for her role in the protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates and lockdowns. An additional year is being sought by the Crown against Lich's co-accused, Chris Barber.

The trial was an example of “the worst case of mischief,” the prosecution wrote in sentencing materials shared by Lich. “The Crown respectfully disagrees that a higher sentence would create a 'chill or fear of participation in political expression',” the Crown argued.

Following a push from conservative social media commentators over the weekend, Pierre Poilievre weighed in on the controversial sentencing.

“Let's get this straight,” the Conservative leader wrote on X. “While rampant violent offenders are released hours after their most recent charges & antisemitic rioters vandalize businesses, terrorize daycares & block traffic without consequences, the Crown wants 7 years prison time for the charge of mischief for Lich & Barber.”

“How is this justice?” he asked.

In early February 2022, amid the protest, Poilievre met with protesters in Ottawa.

The trucker-led demonstration “was not just for truckers,” he said, “but for the 60% of Canadians who say they worry they can't afford food ... the 60-year-old small businessman who has spent his entire adult life building up an enterprise and watching it wiped out ... the depressed 14-year-old who's been locked out of school ... the families that can't take it anymore.”

Sentencing for Lich and Barber is set for July 23. Rebel News boss Ezra Levant will be covering the ruling from Ottawa.

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  • Shaun Morrison
    commented 2025-07-22 12:50:54 -0400
    Just an opinion;
    Death of a thousand cuts.
    All these “micro” battles, challenges, human rights violations, imported violence, crime and corruption are created to usher in a new era of global control. Canadians are being systematically neutered of their rights, influenced judges and our laws are being changed and will be used as the “precedence” being set so it will be even harder to bring truth and justice to the surface and to correct bad people. The level of corruption in Canada along with our southern neighbours has been coming to light for many years now. Deep states not only involve the US but many other countries as well, look at how c-19 was introduced and the organized effort of how bad the corruption lies and influence has played out and yet many remain stupidly ignorant of this fact (by design). Meanwhile the constant distractions are violently thrown at the citizens of many countries, men in women’s sports, the lack of enforced human rights and the efforts to suppress them and not just in Canada. Bad laws will be used against good people to justify the harm and to make it appear that true justice is being served and our rights are being respected. The true racist call others racist to silence them, the corrupt call good people corrupt while someone reaches into your back pocket and steals your wallet, the list quite long. Many countries citizens are and have been receiving a “death of a thousand cuts.” When it gets bad enough and the engineered violence overruns the streets countries will quite possibly receive a foreign to their soil restoration force, the foreign political control force has already landed. Take your rights, feed you poison injections, take your savings, take your future and you will eat their bugs. This has not happened overnight, but I do feel the “plan” is at the point of no return now and my predictions, I’m thinking, say the ending will be very rough and many people will cease to exist if this is not corrected, this has to be done by good people, not the disguised appearance of good.
  • Robert Smith
    followed this page 2025-07-22 08:07:13 -0400
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-07-21 21:35:02 -0400
    I’m glad Pierre Poilievre is speaking out about this vendetta the government has for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. And thanks to Liberal boomers and their Trump Derangement Syndrome, we have Marx Carnage as PM. Let’s hope and pray reality mugs those low-information voters.
  • Bernhard Jatzeck
    commented 2025-07-21 21:14:23 -0400
    It’s justice because the Civil Service Party says it is and the CSP is never wrong.
  • d b
    commented 2025-07-21 17:08:19 -0400
    Is there any doubt why each province should separate from a leftist communist Marxist Canadian Government that treats its peaceful protest citizens with whips and chains rather than listening to their protestations?
    RCMP arrested, jailed, charged in court, bank and asset seizure, held to force confessions, costing millions and family to innocent protesters. This is third world country actions in what was once a country to be proud of.
    Canadian RCMP/Liberals are going to whip freedom thinking/complaining right out of them, any way they can.
    After 3 years the prosecution is still pushing for 10 years sentences for misdeameaners: OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — One of the most prominent figures from Canada’s trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions in 2022 has been found guilty on five counts of mischief and disobeying a court order.