{"id":196899,"date":"2025-10-08T06:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196899\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:48:13","slug":"freedom-convoy-leaders-lich-barber-each-given-18-month-conditional-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/196899\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Freedom Convoy\u2019 leaders Lich, Barber each given 18-month conditional sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber have both been given 18-month conditional sentences for their roles in the protest that blockaded downtown Ottawa for several weeks.<\/p>\n

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The two learned their fate when they appeared in an Ottawa courtroom on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Lich and Barber were found guilty of mischief in April<\/a>, while Barber was also found guilty of an additional offence of counselling others to disobey a court order.<\/p>\n

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Justice Heather Perkins-McVey sentenced Barber, who is from Swift Current, Sask., to 12 months of house arrest and another six months abiding by a strict curfew.<\/p>\n

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Lich, who is from Medicine Hat, Alta., will serve 12 months of house arrest and three and a half months under a curfew after being given credit for days already spent in custody.<\/p>\n

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Lich and Barber were leaders of the protest<\/a> that drew thousands of people and hundreds of trucks to downtown Ottawa in early 2022 in an effort to get all COVID-19 public health measures lifted.<\/p>\n

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The protest led to the federal government using the Emergencies Act for the first time on Feb. 14, and a multi-day police operation was launched days later to clear Ottawa\u2019s core.<\/p>\n

The Crown had asked for a prison sentence of seven years for Lich and eight years for Barber.<\/a><\/p>\n

In a separate Ottawa-based trial, Pat King, another convoy leader, was sentenced in February to three months of house arrest, 100 hours of community service at a food bank or men\u2019s shelter and a year of probation.<\/p>\n

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He received nine months credit for time served before his conviction.<\/p>\n

The Crown had asked he be sentenced to 10 years in prison for mischief and disobeying a court order.<\/p>\n

\u2014 With files from The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

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