OTTAWA — A Crown prosecutor said Tuesday 'Freedom Convoy' organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are not trial for their political beliefs, but for the means they used to achieve their goal.
Tim Radcliffe delivered his opening statement as the pair's trial got underway at a courthouse in Ottawa, nearly 20 months after police moved in and dislodged hundreds of trucks and other vehicles that entrenched themselves around the streets of Parliament Hill for three weeks in winter 2022.
Watson, who was the mayor of Ottawa during the protest, was at the courthouse Tuesday and confirmed he expects to testify. The protest inspired similar demonstrations at several international border crossings and precipitated the first invocation of the federal Emergencies Act since the legislation was created in 1988.
The Crown hopes to establish that Barber and Lich worked together in lockstep, so that evidence against one of them will apply to both.The rest of the benches in the courtroom are crowded with about 50 supporters, news reporters and lawyers.Given the public interest in the case, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said she requested the largest courtroom in the Ontario court of justice to allow as many people as possible to watch.
As the weeks passed, more and more people became involved in planning a demonstration, and the aim of the protest expanded to include the elimination of all pandemic public-health measures and, for some factions of the protest, the overthrow of Canada's elected government.
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