Two prominent “Freedom Convoy” organizers “crossed the line” into criminal activity when they led a massive demonstration to Ottawa in 2022 and refused to leave, the Crown said in its final submissions on their criminal trial Tuesday.
Tamara Lich and Chris Barber were among several organizers who brought a huge number of demonstrators and big-rig trucks to Ottawa two years ago to protest pandemic-era public health restrictions and vaccine mandates.
Protesters flooded into the capital in 2022 at the tail end of the omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and stayed in Ottawa for three weeks, blocking downtown roads around Parliament Hill with vehicles, blaring horns at all hours, blasting music over loudspeakers and setting off fireworks in the street.
The two organizers are co-accused of mischief, intimidation and several charges related to counselling others to break the law for their role in the demonstration.
Barber is also charged with …