Prosecution dropped thousands of documents, text messages, and social media material on the court today without disclosing it first to the defence. The defence was upset about this, and the judge said she was not impressed, and said this is not going to stand.
00:00:00.000All right, all right, our mom first, our mom came out first, we want to say the most beautiful, thank you, thank you for everything you did, thank you to put your life on the line for us, you're one of the greatest women I ever met in my life.
00:00:20.400So we are in a very precarious position in this country, we need political change, but we also need to resolve to resist.
00:00:31.400So it's David Creighton here outside the Ottawa Provincial Courthouse, we just had the fourth day of testimony in the Tamara Leach, Chris Barber trial, and believe me, some of the incidents today, some of the unfolding, had to be seen to be believed.
00:00:56.060You have to wonder what the Crown Council is trying to achieve with some of these videos.
00:01:02.560They were upbraided on numerous occasions by the judge for not being prepared, for doing things improperly, dumping documents that they did not share with the defense, and the video they aired this afternoon was bizarre, to say the least.
00:01:19.180So I'm going to try to interview the lawyer for Tamara Leach momentarily, but we'll be back next week covering this story, covering this trial, because this is not just about the Freedom Convoy, it's not just about Tamara Leach and Chris Barber, it's about all of our freedom.
00:01:40.960That's why I'm calling this the Freedom Trial.
00:01:44.840Yes, welcome back to another Take 5, David Creighton, the Stand on Guard, and yes, I hope you enjoyed those clips that Tamara Leach was looking very confident, and very happy, and very positive, she has been that way since I first talked to her at the beginning of the trial, and I hope you enjoyed that stand-up, that was the end of the day, it was a long day, and I've got lots to tell you about.
00:02:10.380It was a bizarre day, because the prosecution dropped thousands of documents, text messages, chats, all kinds of social media material, on the court today, without disclosing it first to the defense.
00:02:30.400Now, naturally, the defense was upset about this, because they have a right, of course, to see what is going to be presented in court as evidence.
00:02:41.400But not only was the defense upset, the judge was upset, and the judge said she was not impressed by this, and said this is not going to stand.
00:02:52.380Consequently, consequently, the defense has to go through all of this stuff, all of these text messages, these chat messages, and examine and assess them.
00:03:06.220Well, there's 212 pages of Facebook postings, there's excerpts from 4,000 pages of cell phone download,
00:03:24.380there's, we're supposed to receive 135 chats, from the 4,000 pages of chats, it just goes on and on.
00:03:42.560But there was an application also, there's some, like, elements that they have to work on over the weekend and send to you, not only in disclosure, but what are you expecting to do?
00:03:51.240What you're, what you're referring to there is the Carter application, and this is, from time to time, this kind of application happens,
00:03:59.460and it's basically an application to use that which one party said against the other, and that's a simple version of it,
00:04:09.300but we need to know what is admitted, what is admissible by the court before we know whether it's going to be used or not against each of the accused persons.
00:04:21.240At the very least, can you see this trial going beyond 16 days?
00:04:29.960You've heard the comments of the judge, she is, she is concerned that we don't have enough time to get this done, in the time frame that's been set.
00:04:37.240So, I mean, that's, that's the judge's concern, and if it's her concern, it's our concern.
00:04:42.320Three more days for this trial, but it could even be longer.
00:04:47.280And once again, we go back to look at the expense, the time, and the energy that's going into the prosecution of two people who peacefully protested in Ottawa in late January, mid-February, 2022.
00:05:06.000And you don't think this is anything about politics?
00:05:12.640Do you think these people really committed crimes worthy of this?
00:05:18.640You know, they've, they've been charged with ridiculous offenses, you know, inciting people to mischief, mischief, obstructing the police, on and on.
00:05:27.060And the funny thing is, there's just no evidence for this.
00:05:32.700And this is about their politics, exactly what the Crown suggested it wasn't about.
00:05:43.420They are just throwing things against the wall and hoping they, they stick.
00:05:48.720And the judge, God bless her, Heather Perkins McVeigh, is not standing for this, saying, no, you come to court and you throw this stuff around, you come ill-prepared, you don't seem to know what you're doing, and no, it's not going to pass.
00:06:12.080So I'm enthused, I'm exhorted by that, because it looks like we have a judge who's going to be fair, and is not going to be answering to politics, because that's all this trial is about.
00:06:29.020It's all about politics, and trying to destroy two people who were part of the Freedom Convoy, so that nobody will try it again.
00:06:37.680Again, stand up to the Trudeau government with this kind of effective protest, peaceful, but effective.
00:06:46.180And Trudeau says, no, you're in the dustbin.
00:09:41.080All I know is I've never seen a more inept prosecution.
00:09:45.500I've never seen a prosecution more arrogant, thinking they can just do whatever they want in isolation.
00:09:52.860I've never seen a prosecution so badly put together.
00:09:59.360And if the trial resumes next week, I am going to keep covering this trial because I believe this could be a turning point in this country.
00:10:12.760I believe Freedom Convoy is going to win, and I believe Freedom is going to win.
00:10:18.020I'll have more to say about this next week.
00:10:20.460Thank you so much for listening today.
00:10:22.780Keep watching next week because we are going to be with this trial to the end.
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