Canadians Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, who organized the Canadian “Freedom Convoy” that blocked traffic at one of the key international trade routes between in the US and Canada, began their trial in Ottawa on mischief, obstructing police, counseling others to commit mischief, and intimidation charges, Newsweek reports.
Duplicating their American MAGAt counterparts who conducted a couple convoys to Washington, DC as a demonstration against science and public health, the Canadians were supposedly protesting American transborder policy that required truckers to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. Later, it developed into a general anti-establishment, anti-government protest that lasted a few day, blocking the Ambassador Bridge, before Canadian dreamboat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked the nation’s Emergencies Act to break up the protest.
As Newsweek notes, Canadian Twitter and other social media sites are bristling with calls for violence should the pair be convicted in the trial, which is expected to wrap up in mid-October after 13 days of testimony this month, followed by a few more days next. “The final decision by the trial judge will have substantive consequences for our future -if exonerated then we have hope if guilty we will have a civil uprising!!” a Twitter user called Concern Canadian posted.