LIVE FROM COURT: Update on the 'Coutts Three' sentencing

Sentencing for the men dubbed the “Coutts Three” — Alex Van Herk, Marco Van Huigenbos and George Janzen — is expected to come as early as tomorrow.

Ezra Levant
  |   January 09, 2025   |   News Analysis   |   5 Comments

Three years ago, Canada was in the worst civil liberties crisis of our country’s history.

Justin Trudeau had imposed a no-fly list on anyone who wasn’t vaccinated. In Alberta, Jason Kenney was prosecuting pastors who refused to close their churches. Across the country, police were arresting people who didn’t wear masks on their face. Family bread-winners were fired from their jobs for not taking a new vaccine that had not been fully tested.

And then the truckers stood up — for all of us. A mighty convoy to Ottawa. And in Alberta, a border blockade, in the town of Coutts. Farmers and truckers in a peaceful protest of passive resistance.

Well, the government threw the book at them.

I’m in court today as three of those men are being sentenced for their role in the Coutts blockade.

As we know now, if those trucker protesters had been supporting Hamas, and calling for the death of Jews, they’d be allowed to block roads all they like — and smash stores and harass the public for more than a year. It’s two-tier justice.

So, what will happen to these three men? It looks like we’ll know tomorrow, when the judge is expected to issue his sentence. I’ll stay down here in Lethbridge another day, to make sure you get the news as soon as it’s out.

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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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  • Dalyce McCue
    commented 2025-01-19 19:55:21 -0500
    Of course Mark Carney has a devious agenda. Note: WEF
  • Frank Narejko
    commented 2025-01-10 13:53:45 -0500
    The 3 fellows should have hired Rick Sanchez. Smartest man in the Universe.
  • Jerrold Lundgard
    commented 2025-01-09 20:00:25 -0500
    There were no convictions for protesters that blocked rail lines and I am surprised that a jury convicted these folk
    Seen as those who blocked rail lines were not charged at all.
  • Jamie Perritt
    commented 2025-01-09 19:50:50 -0500
    These guys should not get 1 day in jail!!
    How about we send that nut prosecutor to jail? He can see how he likes being locked up in a cage for absolutely nothing.
    How do these dipshits get into these positions in the first place and how does he still have his job?
    Oh right, we have a dipshit PM because a bunch of dipshits voted him in.
    Bunch of fools running the country.
    Anyway, thank you Ezra!
  • Bruce Atchison
    commented 2025-01-09 19:14:29 -0500
    Two-tire legal systems are evil! Those Palestinian protesters must face the same treatment as the freedom convoy did. Shut down their road-blocking antics and if people riot, arrest them too. The law must be for all and equally administered. Treating one group with toleration while clamping down on others is a recipe for regime change.