The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - 7 years in prison Lich and Barber while violent criminals go free？

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, Wyatt Claypool here.

00:00:02.820 I think recent events have proven why Canadian Conservatives, and especially Conservative politicians,

00:00:08.940 need to care about the issue of judicial appointments.

00:00:12.340 I know it feels very American to be talking about it, and the media are going to attack you as a Conservative politician

00:00:18.280 for bringing up the issue, but it matters.

00:00:21.540 And by the way, it's not exactly paying electoral dividends to not talk about it.

00:00:26.060 I think there's actually a lot of Canadians out there who want Conservatives to take on the issue

00:00:30.660 of all these far leftists overseeing our courtrooms, giving out very light sentences to actual violent criminals.

00:00:38.120 At the same time, we currently have the Crown Prosecutor trying to get seven and eight years

00:00:44.300 in the case of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber for the crime of mischief,

00:00:49.420 which they are calling mass mischief in the courtroom today.

00:00:52.240 I'm not sure if a sentence has come out in that case.

00:00:54.740 It may have already come out by the time this video is done.

00:00:58.000 It might take multiple days.

00:00:59.420 Who knows?

00:01:00.200 But even if the judge ends up just giving them time served,

00:01:03.880 the fact that this case ever found that Tamara and Chris were guilty of, what,

00:01:09.740 having a protest in an empty city in which they weren't even the leaders of it.

00:01:14.260 That's the funny thing.

00:01:15.440 Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were not the leaders of the convoy because there were no leaders of the convoy.

00:01:20.200 If after the first week, Tamara and Chris Barber or anyone else associated with the convoy

00:01:25.440 just got into a car and left the city, it would just keep going on.

00:01:29.160 There were like a week at a time when you wouldn't even hear anything from anyone in the supposed leadership

00:01:33.900 because that wasn't the point.

00:01:36.180 But for some reason, they are now not only convicted for doing this,

00:01:39.680 but potentially facing prison time.

00:01:41.700 At the same time, again, violent criminals get basically nothing or they get run out of prison early

00:01:47.880 or judges are trying to push to not even sentence them for anything

00:01:51.580 because that could risk their immigration status. 1.00

00:01:55.860 It's all so stupid. 0.99

00:01:57.180 But anyways, before I get into it, I just want to remind you guys, 0.86

00:02:00.480 hey, if you like this show, make sure to leave a like on the video,

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00:02:06.340 and leave a comment on what you think about this issue.

00:02:09.000 But let's start off with what Federal Conservative Party leader Pierre Polyev said,

00:02:13.740 and I think it is very good he made a statement.

00:02:16.140 I know a lot of people are arguing why he shouldn't or why it's good if he doesn't sound off on it

00:02:20.180 or why he can't, but he should, he did, and it was the right thing to do.

00:02:25.600 Pierre Polyev says here, let's get this straight.

00:02:28.440 While rampant violent offenders are released hours after their most recent charges

00:02:33.040 and anti-Semitic rioters vandalize businesses, terrorize daycares, and block traffic without consequences,

00:02:38.680 the Crown wants seven years prison time for the charge of mischief for Lich and Barber.

00:02:44.360 How is this justice?

00:02:46.540 And it definitely is not justice at all.

00:02:49.660 But now let's go through some headlines regarding actual criminals,

00:02:54.420 not people committing quote-unquote mischief,

00:02:56.920 but people committing violent offenses and what's going on with judges and those people.

00:03:01.200 Let's start off with this headline from Juneau News.

00:03:03.760 Judge Stahl's guilty plea for homicide-linked immigrant over likely deportation.

00:03:10.440 A Canadian judge hit the brakes on a guilty plea from a non-citizen linked to a homicide

00:03:15.540 and facing serious criminal charges,

00:03:17.680 citing discomfort with the fact that the accused would likely be deported.

00:03:22.280 That's good reporting by Alex Zoltan here from the True North Wire service for Juneau News. 0.99

00:03:26.420 And that is nuts that we have a dullard like that, some crazy left-wing activist, 0.98

00:03:33.760 actually a judge in a courtroom. 0.98

00:03:35.980 This person has judgment on cases like this when they would let somebody being deported

00:03:41.980 determine whether or not they want to accept a guilty plea from somebody who obviously did it

00:03:48.000 if they are actually trying to plead guilty.

00:03:50.520 I'm not sure if they were responsible for the murder or they were just linked to the murder happening

00:03:54.080 and they, you know, assisted in it, but what?

00:03:57.700 Because of the politics of the time, the person doesn't want to see a poor immigrant deported

00:04:02.620 who was involved in a murder case.

00:04:06.080 It just demonstrates where these people's head spaces are at.

00:04:08.960 Let's move on to another one.

00:04:10.320 And by the way, I did not try hard in order to actually get these.

00:04:15.600 It would defeat the purpose if I tried really hard to get headlines to talk about here

00:04:20.220 because that would show that it's, you know, it doesn't happen all that often.

00:04:23.300 It took me two minutes to find these headlines.

00:04:27.480 Another one, another one from Juno News.

00:04:30.160 Life sentence killer charged with new murder months after receiving parole.

00:04:34.600 Jeremiah Valentine, 43, who was sentenced to life in prison for killing 15-year-old Jane Kariba

00:04:40.820 during a notorious 2005 gang shooting in Toronto has been charged with first-degree murder in Montreal.

00:04:45.860 So the person was convicted in 2005 and they're already out on the streets in 2025 to kill somebody else.

00:04:56.240 They didn't even serve the full 25 years that we usually give killers in Canada.

00:05:01.320 We let them out early, apparently, on good behavior so that they could get right back to killing somebody else.

00:05:05.860 What is wrong with this system?

00:05:09.440 We need to actually have tests on our judges to make sure that they believe in enforcing the law as harshly as it needs to be.

00:05:18.460 Because criminals do not need kid gloves.

00:05:21.900 They need harsh sentences. 0.99

00:05:23.540 In fact, some of them probably need the death penalty. 0.74

00:05:25.600 And I, in fact, want to bring back that if I was in charge of things.

00:05:28.800 But let's move on to another story.

00:05:32.680 Another fun one here.

00:05:35.580 This one isn't about exactly a criminal, but it's still ridiculous that this person is on the court.

00:05:42.340 Judge halts non-binary persons deportation to the U.S. as Trump dismantles trans rights.

00:05:49.560 Advocates say ruling could set an important precedent for 2SLGBTQ plus immigrants and refugees.

00:05:55.280 This person, who has violated the law, is here overstaying a visitation visa, is allowed to just stay because apparently they are terrified to go back to their home in Minnesota, run by Democratic Governor Tim Walz, because something might happen.

00:06:15.280 I believe this person is a woman who identifies as non-binary and then they take testosterone. 0.99

00:06:19.880 What are they scared of happening if they go back to their democratic state where they probably live in a very democratic city?

00:06:28.160 What's going to happen to them?

00:06:29.980 What, they're not going to be able to watch men compete in women's sports?

00:06:34.720 What's actually wrong here?

00:06:37.140 What prevents them from going back?

00:06:39.660 Anyways, another case.

00:06:41.240 Let's move on to another one.

00:06:42.520 Man accused of Stanley Park assault was granted bail hours earlier on separate charges.

00:06:51.260 A man accused of attacking a woman on the seawall in April has been released on bail just hours earlier for unrelated criminal charges, court records reveal.

00:07:00.500 So we have people committing a violent crime, assault on a woman, being charged, being let out of prison, committing another crime, and then being let on bail for that too.

00:07:12.980 That seems like somebody who's not going to be reliable in terms of them showing up for their actual criminal trial for the first case, considering they can't stop committing crimes.

00:07:23.320 The thing is, the whole idea of bail is that you should be in prison until you get sentenced, until the trial happens.

00:07:31.520 In modern day, you can't really lock somebody up and force them to await trial for what could be months.

00:07:38.140 And so what people do is they're usually supposed to put up some collateral.

00:07:42.140 I will pay you a certain portion of the bail.

00:07:45.240 I'll give you, you know, 10% down.

00:07:47.660 It's usually a percentage.

00:07:48.720 It's always like it's 100,000 bail or it's, you know, 50,000 bail, but you only really have to give them 500 bucks and they will charge you back the rest if you violate your bail by committing another crime and they'll take $50,000 from you.

00:08:00.820 But you usually do that to demonstrate you have a stake in the game in coming back in order to actually face the trial because you think you're actually, you know, innocent and you want to prove it.

00:08:11.260 Or at least you're going to play by the rules to not get damaged even more.

00:08:16.020 Letting a violent offender just out until the trial is insane because they've already proven they are potentially capable of violence.

00:08:24.380 Not quite proven until we have the trial, but they are potentially capable of violence.

00:08:30.420 And if they commit another offense, well, you know, probably shouldn't be giving them a third chance.

00:08:37.700 But for some reason, we do that all the time in this country.

00:08:40.160 And in order to actually hold someone in prison because of the bail reform policies passed by Justin Trudeau's liberal government and still enforced by Mark Carney's, prosecutors, who oftentimes can be part of the problem, and unless a good prosecutor wants to bend over backwards, showing all the reasons why someone should not be released, they'll just be released.

00:09:02.380 And even if you do all the work to show that someone shouldn't be released, a judge can still disagree and release them anyways.

00:09:07.760 So prosecutors don't even bother because so many of these judges are so left-wing that even if you show that this guy has assaulted children, he's a murderer, or he's like he's attempted murder before, he shouldn't be released.

00:09:22.280 A judge can just say, I think our prison system is really mean to the incarcerated.

00:09:27.520 The incarcerated is a term I see a lot from criminal advocates.

00:09:32.520 The prison system is hard on incarcerated people, so we're not going to lock them up.

00:09:37.200 So what's the point of even trying if you are one of the good prosecutors?

00:09:41.220 Who is it calling for seven-year sentences for people for the great crime of mischief, for having trucks parked on a completely empty street because you weren't even barely allowed to leave your house at this point?

00:09:51.540 What do I know?

00:09:53.200 Anyways, so let's highlight another one.

00:09:57.100 Let's just keep going because we could do this forever.

00:10:01.460 Look at this one.

00:10:03.220 Could see victim under car.

00:10:05.320 Indian origin students sentenced to three years in jail in Canada for hit and run could face deportation.

00:10:12.120 These two killed somebody in a hit and run, and they are only going to be given three years in prison, three years for murdering somebody, and then the byline, hopefully they weren't like acting concerned about it, they could face deportation.

00:10:30.040 These murderers, maybe it's third degree, maybe it's just manslaughter, but these people who killed somebody are going to be potentially deported after serving their three-year sentence, probably out on one for good behavior.

00:10:45.280 What is this?

00:10:46.560 This is not justice at all.

00:10:48.320 And this, again, is why conservatives need to take this issue seriously.

00:10:52.140 I don't want to be too pragmatic about politics.

00:10:54.720 I'm really not a pragmatic person.

00:10:56.060 I think you should do what's right because it's right.

00:10:58.580 Obviously, you don't set yourself up for failure for no reason by sounding off on everything all the time to the point where it's hard to actually figure out what your ideological through line is or what your main message is.

00:11:10.040 But this is a big one that conservatives should be using a lot of their bandwidth to promote.

00:11:15.220 The idea that judges are letting murderers, they're letting rapists, they're letting all these crazy people out onto the streets without actually being criminally convicted or with very light criminal convictions and light sentences.

00:11:29.480 We should be trying to actually roll back a lot of this by appointing better judges, by finding ways of removing judges that have proven themselves to be incompetent in upholding the law, people who are not interested in upholding the law.

00:11:42.820 We should be locking up criminals and not having our grocery stores, our convenience stores, having to lock up tubes of toothpaste.

00:11:50.540 That sounds like a good idea to me, not having to lock up razor blades and other basic items because people are going to steal them because the people who do steal them, if they get caught, are going to be released five seconds later and they're just going to do it again.

00:12:03.320 One of the big surges in crime across Canada has been in the area of retail theft.

00:12:08.700 It's been violent offenses and retail theft.

00:12:11.180 Those things are up massively.

00:12:13.060 And now I want to cut back to Pierre Polyev because he has been highlighting this recently and it's good for him to be talking about because this is absolutely insane how much crime is up and nobody really talks about it in the mainstream media or at least they don't talk about it properly.

00:12:26.340 And so, and even he was talking about another one of these cases recently that I didn't even talk about yet.

00:12:32.780 Polyev here says, another violent attack from someone who was out on bail for serious offenses, repeal liberal catch and release laws to bring Sandy back to our justice system and safety to our streets.

00:12:44.580 And it's Brampton Man, 20 charge in London, Ontario pot shop shooting was on bail.

00:12:49.380 And even then I would say Polyev probably needs to highlight, we need better judges.

00:12:55.040 We need judges who actually have the ability to use their own judgment to prevent violent offenders, to prevent repeat offenders from getting it back out and doing it again.

00:13:06.680 I think retail thieves after your third or fourth offense should just be locked up for five years or three years.

00:13:12.400 Make it debilitating the amount of time they get locked up because then they will stop doing it.

00:13:17.320 This is my background.

00:13:19.300 My, I don't talk about it that often because I often, I often find getting too much education is a bad thing.

00:13:25.400 I have a master's degree in which my research paper was on crime.

00:13:30.140 It's not poverty that causes people to commit crimes.

00:13:33.920 Yeah, kind of.

00:13:34.680 It's a very weak correlation oftentimes.

00:13:37.160 The big thing that causes crime is weak family structures or educational attainment.

00:13:42.560 And the biggest one is not enforcing the law.

00:13:44.820 If you don't enforce the law, people are going to start gaming the system that allows them to be, like, let out onto the streets right after being caught.

00:13:53.740 But let's get back to Pierre Polyev.

00:13:56.140 He's also said,

00:13:57.020 Another one, he said,

00:14:12.840 That is, again, a message I absolutely support.

00:14:33.900 But again, we should be pairing that up with get good judges onto the courts.

00:14:40.080 Yes, we have this fake non-partisanship in terms of who gets appointed as judges.

00:14:44.380 But it's an executive decision in Canada.

00:14:47.100 It is the government.

00:14:48.800 It is the premier's office or the prime minister's office who is determining who is going to be appointed as a judge.

00:14:55.460 Technically, it's the attorney general.

00:14:56.840 But the attorney generals serve the leader.

00:15:00.220 And so, if we are going to appoint judges this way in this country, we should be appointing people who maybe aren't conservative.

00:15:07.180 But when they see a violent criminal who is not remorseful, they are going to absolutely throw the book at them and get as high a sentence as humanly possible placed onto them.

00:15:17.780 But anyways.

00:15:19.080 That should be it for me today, guys.

00:15:22.240 I definitely will be back tomorrow with more content.

00:15:25.480 But yeah, this issue is absolutely insane.

00:15:28.180 And I probably will be covering whatever sentence Tamara Lich and Chris Barber end up getting.

00:15:32.620 Again, the funny thing about all this, and I can bring up my own tweet about it.

00:15:36.620 They're not even the leaders.

00:15:38.160 There was no leaders to the Freedom Convoy.

00:15:40.140 In fact, the person who started the Freedom Convoy was Bridget Belton, who no one remembers.

00:15:44.400 Because that wasn't really the point.

00:15:45.980 We weren't really supposed to remember who the leaders were because it was just a bunch of people showing up.

00:15:49.660 But it's kind of a quirk of like the JCCF and other groups showing up and they wanted to have figureheads to talk about.

00:15:57.040 And it was just the quirk of how everything worked that Tamara Lich and Chris Barber had access to the biggest social media profiles for the Freedom Convoy.

00:16:06.700 They had access to them, even if oftentimes they didn't even start them.

00:16:10.520 And they end up becoming like the figureheads.

00:16:12.760 And now they're being charged as leaders.

00:16:14.380 But they're not actually leaders.

00:16:16.200 Again, if they just went silent and left Ottawa, it would have just kept going on.

00:16:20.820 Because people were doing it because they were ticked off, not because anyone told them to do it.

00:16:24.540 It was a movement.

00:16:25.500 Bridget started. 0.99

00:16:26.460 A bunch of people jumped on.

00:16:27.660 And then it really shot off.

00:16:29.240 It wasn't because a political organizer showed up and said, we're going to do this.

00:16:33.560 And then everyone started doing it.

00:16:34.840 Some random lady bravely started doing it. 1.00

00:16:37.760 A bunch of people jumped on board.

00:16:39.340 More people jumped on board.

00:16:40.560 And then that's the only way you can describe it.

00:16:42.380 More people kept jumping on board, like one after another.

00:16:45.720 And then it became like the biggest movement in Canadian history in terms of protests.

00:16:50.200 But anyways, again, that's it for me today, guys.

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The National Telegraph - Wyatt Claypool - July 23, 2025

7 years in prison Lich and Barber while violent criminals go free？

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