Leaders of Canada’s ‘Freedom Convoy’ facing up to 8 years in prison: ‘political vengeance’

NY Post ^ | July 26, 2025 | Gabrielle Fahmy

[Twotone]

The leaders of Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” are facing up to eight years in prison, an “abusive” sentencing recommendation critics are ripping as “political vengeance.”

Tamara Lich and Chris Barber sat in an Ottawa courtroom for their sentencing hearings this week after being found guilty in April of mischief for organizing the trucker protest against then Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ultra-strict vaccine mandate.

The protest paralyzed the Great White North’s capital for three weeks in 2022.

The Crown is seeking seven years for Lich, 51, of Alberta, and eight for Barber, of Saskatchewan — who was also found guilty of counseling others to disobey a court order.

“It seems like a considerable overreach,” Lich told The Post Friday, during a stop on her three-day drive back to Alberta. “They’re trying to deter others, I believe, from ever protesting something like this again.”

Prosecutors are also pushing to seize Barber’s truck, “Big Red,” which was used in the protest — through a forfeiture order they filed three years after the fact.

“I’ve owned this truck for 21 years,” said Barber, 50, who runs a family trucking business and co-owns “Big Red” with his son. “This is how I make a living. And the Crown wants to remove that from me and destroy it, which is absolutely disheartening to see that they will go to such a level of vileness.”

“It’s just this vindictive vendetta of pettiness,” Lich added.

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TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: canada; freedomconvoy; politicalvengeance; sentencing

[Teacher317]

And the Canadians voted in an even more authoritarian tyrant than Trudeau, because they didn’t like Pres Trump’s bombastic personality. That’ll show us!!

[Dogbert41]

Trump should send in Delta to rescue them. Give them and their families political asylum.

[Tell It Right]

The Freedom Convoy leaders should identify as First Nation and dare the leftists to jail them.

[Antoninus]

It’s amazing how quickly our friendly neighbor to the north turned into a wretched little tyranny.

[Bon of Babble]

Trump should immediately offer them asylum in the U.S.

Canada is a police state:

[FlingWingFlyer]

It sounds like the hosers have gone full “fascist”. I wonder what it is about a “freedom convoy” that scared them.

[Wallace T.]

Sending in Delta Force to rescue Canadian, British, French, and German dissidents would be amazing. If it were done, there would have to be a lot of coordination to break them out of detention and take their families to the U.S. or maybe Hungary, Slovakia, or Poland, the latter countries for the European dissidents. I don't know that the degree of coordination necessary would be the source of leaks, as Obama and Biden era people are deeply embedded in the military and the intelligence agencies. U.S. Air Force assets are more than adequate to compel the Canadian Armed Forces to stand down. The European militaries are another story.

If a Delta Force operation were successful, it would stimulate resistance to the oppression coming out of Ottawa, London, Paris, and Berlin. In the Irish War for Independence and the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the IRA and the Zionist groups had monetary and weapons support from their co-ethnics in the United States. We also aided the French Resistance during World War II. These may be useful guides to overthrow the leftist regimes in our so-called allies.

[Allegra]

Now this is fascism.

[Gnome1949]

If those in Alberta and Saskatchewan needed more convincing to depart the tyranny of eastern Canada, this will do it. Here’s hoping the western provinces form a military force and break out these political prisoners guilty of advocating “freedom.”

[Midwesterner53]

Time for DJT to tell Canada that if they go to jail, our Ambassador comes home and relations are over.

[Vaduz]

Trudeau following in daddy’s foot steps Castro.