Crown seeks 'cruel and unusual punishment' for trucker convoy leaders

While transnational criminals elude Canada's penal system.

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8 years an 'abusive' sentence: Barber's lawyer

Arthur White-Crummey
CBC News posted: Jul 23, 2025

The Crown says it's seeking an extraordinary sentence for an unprecedented crime, as court began hearing sentencing submissions Wednesday in the mischief case of Ottawa truck convoy leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber.

Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher asked Justice Heather Perkins-McVey to impose a prison sentence of seven years for Lich and eight years for Barber.

But Barber's lawyer called that "cruel and unusual punishment." Instead, she argued her client should walk free with an absolute discharge.

Barber was found guilty in April of mischief and counselling others to disobey a court order, while Lich was convicted of mischief alone.

Wetscher admitted the sentences she's asking for are at the upper end of the range — the Criminal Code sets a maximum of 10 years for mischief — but she argued that they're justified.

"It's not a sentence that is being sought lightly, but one that the Crown believes is proportional," Wetscher said. Continues at https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/crown-seeking-8-years-for-convoy-leader-chris-barber-7-for-tamara-lich-1.7592513

Mass mischief = too big, too long, too loud

Trish Wood
July 26, 2025

Back home this morning after a difficult trip to Ottawa. The full force of the state was brought to bear on the Convoy — and Tamara and Chris in a series of connected courtroom scenes that felt like a Kafka novel. The Crown and Justice Perkins-McVey will be from this moment forever known for lowering the status of well-meaning and brave human beings into nothing more than blank vessels to be punished and scolded for violating The Rules.

Oh no, the protest wasn’t violent they admit. And yes, Tamara and Chris implored the protestors to behave which they did, but according to the judge and the Crown that really wasn’t the issue. The protest was just too big, lasted too long and at times was too loud. It was what they are calling a “mass mischief” — a new kind of criminal mischief that punishes peaceful protesters for being too good — attracting too many people and raising too much money. It was just too successful.

The real crime

Tamara and Chris performed a kind of miracle in front of the whole country. Smashing the stereotype of the working class-thug. The racist deplorable. The leering sexual assaulter. I believe that was the real crime. The Freedom Convoy showed them, day after day for nearly three weeks that our working class people, the people who farm our fields, fight our wars and yes, deliver our goods - are the real Canadians. Still here. Still solid and true blue. For the failing elites who rule by fear and aggression it must have felt like a shot over the bow. They were losing control. Their messaging was being exposed as a fraud. The people were saying no — and they were saying it peacefully to the whole world.

That is why Tamara and Chris — plus the rest of our truckers have been placed on a spit to be roasted over judicial fires. Continues at https://trishwood.substack.com/p/video-podlong-road-home-for-the-convoy

M E A N W H I L E …

Eluding Canada’s penal system

Canada doesn't compile this kind of data so we have to look to international institutions to do it for us because perpetrators have a vested interest in Canada and in Canadians not knowing the nature of their own country.

The International Coalition Against Illicit Economies [ICAIE] Policy Brief on Growing Harms of Cross-Border Illicit Trade Vectors and Threat Convergence to Canada's National Security.

REPORT “Today, Canada is not merely a consumer of illicit goods and contraband, but increasingly serves as a hub of illicit trade, production and distribution of illicit goods, an exporter of such contraband, and a money laundering safe haven for a potpourri of criminal networks. Additionally, these activities also have a disrupting and distracting impact on the Canadian political, governance, security, and business climate.”

REPORT: “While the heads of these criminal syndicates have been arrested, their illicit networks continue to exploit Canada’s liberal legal frameworks and security structures which have historically focused on imminent domestic and regional crime versus the more complex transnational and sophisticated security threats. However, criminals with great national security significance have eluded Canada’s penal system, including Iranian Kingpin Omid Tahvili – among the FBI’s most wanted fugitives – who virtually walked out of the front door of prison. Others such as mobster Robbie Alkhalil have escaped from prison and is considered one of Canada’s most significant public safety and organized crime threats.”

ICAIE Report

https://icaie.com/2023/11/icaie-issues-new-policy-brief-on-the-growing-harms-of-cross-border-illicit-trade-vectors-and-threat-convergence-to-canadas-national-security-urgent-attention-and-action-are-needed/

The biggest racketeering enterprise in history

The ICAIE report substantiates what former Tennessee Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor disclosed: Canada is one of the #1 places to launder money.

Taylor shows how the Green New Deal, DEI and Trans Agenda are all a phony cover for a vast nation-state organized real estate bank fraud, human-trafficking and narcotics money-laundering operation, involving Canadian banks, Mexican Cartels, the Chinese Communist Party, the IMF, the World Bank and Ukraine, engineered by the same Goldman-Sachs players who caused the 2008 Financial Crisis. https://forbiddenknowledgetv.net/chief-shawn-taylor-w-nino-bombshell-new-money-laundering-evidence/

What can be done?

To support our fellow man and justice, please consider posting the ICAIE Report with one or more quotes at appropriate publications. This includes publications related to the trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber. TY!

More information in Parts I and II

https://www.ourgreaterdestiny.ca/p/bombshell-icaie-report-colossal-scale

Without prejudice and without recourse
Doreen Agostino
Our Greater Destiny Blog
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