Chris Barber, Tamara Lich not guilty on most charges. Mark Carney still seeks jail time.

CBC is reporting that "Chris Barber and Tamara Lich have been found not guilty of most charges against them for their roles in the 2022 truck convoy protest in Ottawa. Barber and Lich each faced six charges including mischief, intimidation, obstructing police and counselling others to do the same."

"On Thursday at the Ottawa courthouse, Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey found the pair not guilty of four charges apiece relating to intimidation and obstructing police. They were both found guilty of committing mischief. Perkins-McVey also found them both guilty of counselling to commit mischief themselves, but that finding was stayed at the request of Crown lawyers."

"Barber alone was found guilty of counselling others to disobey a court order. Lich was not charged with this. All told, Barber was found guilty of two charges, not guilty of four and had a seventh stayed. Lich was found guilty of one, not guilty of four and had a sixth stayed." Disobey a court order? GMAFB. The court order was about honking horns that is all. It did not say they had to disperse.

In her ruling, Perkins-McVey said protesters had a right to political expression, but ruled they crossed legal lines." No they did not. "The decision focused on the specific actions and statements made by Lich and Barber to encourage ongoing protests that were impacting the city." 

Impacting the City is not relevant when they didn't get a court order at the time ordering them to disperse or stop impacting the city. There was no court order other than the one about honking horns. Mischief is pretty vague and lame. 

At the BC pipeline protest the government obtained a court order prohibiting protesters from blocking access to the pipeline. Elizabeth May and Kennedy Stewart intentionally defied that court order in an act of civil disobedience. They weren't honking a horn they were blocking access. They were arrested and released immediately. That case becomes case law. It establishes a precedent.

In Chris and Tamara's case, "Crown prosecutors have signaled they would seek jail time; the maximum penalty for mischief is ten years. The two are expected to be sentenced later this year." That is mentally deranged. When they say the crown is seeking jail time they mean Mark Carney because he is the PM now. 

This trial never should have happened. Brian Peckford and Daniel Bulford were never charged. No one should have been. Pat King was sentenced to three months house arrest. Again that is now case law.