OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Canadian Freedom Convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who were both jailed for fighting draconian government COVID dictates, will have to wait until September 2023 for their trial.
According to a Global News report, Lich and Barber’s trial dates were just set for the fall of 2023, and their trials are expected to last 16 days.
Lich last month was set free from jail immediately after Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman granted her bail and criticized her earlier detainment under a ruling by a Justice of the Peace as invalid.
However, all of her previous bail conditions remain. She must not “verbally, in writing, financially, or by any other means, support anything related to the Freedom Convoy.” She is also mandated to reside in her home province of Alberta and cannot use social media.
This means Lich will be forced to live under these rules for over a year before her trial starts.
Lich is being represented by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
She was first arrested on February 17, only two days after Trudeau enacted the Emergencies Act (EA), which he claimed was needed to deal with the Freedom Convoy protesters, who were demanding an end to all COVID mandates.
Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23.
Lich and Barber were charged with multiple offenses, such as mischief and obstructing police, for taking part in and organizing the Freedom Convoy.
Independent media and political commentators have noted how the jailing of Lich and the push by the Crown to have her face a long-term prison sentence is a “national embarrassment.”
“The obsessive state pursuit of Tamara Lich is proving to be a national embarrassment. The government really should have bigger fish to fry right now but they can’t set aside their spite for those who dared to protest against them,” tweeted Cory Morgan of the Western Standard.