Juno News - October 09, 2025


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

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Tamara Leach Chris Barber
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1 minute

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163.1

Word count

269

Sentence count

10

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Misogyny

1

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Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were each handed a conditional sentence of 18 months for their part in the Freedom Convoy protest in which they were charged with mischief, conspiracy to commit mischief, and conspiracy to obstruct justice. We speak to the two outside the Ottawa courthouse where they were sentenced.

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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 0.98
00:01:33.940 of expression is something that we're looking very seriously at challenging further on.