Wed Feb 23, 2022 – 1:49 pm EST
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) — The judge who kept Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich in jail is a former Liberal Party candidate whom Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has praised in the past.
The judge who denied Lich bail after being arrested as part of the Emergencies Act crackdown, Julie Bourgeois, ran as a Liberal Party candidate in 2011.
A video resurfaced of Trudeau, at the time of her campaign just a Member of Parliament (MP), praising Bourgeois for “her vision, her authenticity, her strength.”
FLASHBACK: Justin Trudeau expresses support for Julie Bourgeois, failed Liberal candidate, in 2011.
Bourgeois, a judge, just denied Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich bail. pic.twitter.com/X8ixSz9ftW
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) February 22, 2022
Bourgeois failed as a political candidate and was beaten by Conservative Pierre Lemieux in her riding.
The failed Liberal candidate has donated more than 70 times to the federal Liberals since 2009.
Bourgeois kept Lich in jail because it was her legal opinion that the barely five-foot-tall Indigenous grandmother must be imprisoned for the “protection and safety of the public.”
During her failed campaign, Bourgeois opined that when a “tough” economic landscape presents
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