Juno News - No prison for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber as judge hands conditional sentence

00:00:00.000 I'm here outside the Ottawa courthouse where Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were each handed down

00:00:05.360 a conditional sentence of 18 months. Here reporting on behalf of True North, I've already

00:00:10.160 asked questions to Tamara Lich's lawyer. We've heard from Chris Barber's lawyer as well. We

00:00:14.780 haven't heard from the two, but I'm here outside waiting to see if we can get any comment from

00:00:20.160 them. Do you consider that there might be, regardless of the cause, there might be a

00:00:23.720 difference of enforcement on future protests of similar scale? Well, yeah, I mean, the police in

00:00:31.000 this case invited and then directed the truckers as to where to park and where to be. And although

00:00:39.080 there was some question about, well, they stayed longer than they were supposed to, that was never

00:00:44.940 the case. The evidence was very clear that the authorities were well aware of their intention

00:00:51.440 to stay until such time as the mandates were revoked.

00:00:55.400 So neither the duration nor where they were directed to go

00:01:00.120 should have been an issue.

00:01:01.880 And it's been clarified that even the removal of trucks

00:01:06.420 to reduce the footprint was something that was stopped

00:01:10.080 not by the Freedom Convoy organizers,

00:01:13.060 but rather stopped by the chief of police.

00:01:14.780 Are we a freer country or less free country today, thanks to all this?

00:01:17.840 We're not doing as badly as they are south of the border, but the decision to convict

00:01:28.360 Tamara Leach for mischief for what she did in the name of peaceful assembly and freedom

00:01:33.940 of expression is something that we're looking very seriously at challenging further on.

Juno News - October 09, 2025