Thu Sep 14, 2023 – 8:32 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – The seventh day of the Freedom Convoy leaders’ trial saw the court viewing a video of a press conference from 2022 at which Tamara Lich and Chris Barber call for media fairness in coverage of the protests.
Sgt. Joanne Pilotte of the Ottawa Police Service continued her testimony on behalf of the Crown on Wednesday, which also marked the end to the ‘voir dire,’ or trial within a trial, which will determine whether certain social media posts will be allowed to be submitted as evidence to the court.
As noted by The Democracy Fund (TDF), which is crowdfunding Lich’s legal costs in a Day 7 trial update, the court was shown the last few minutes of a 75-minute video, which “appears to be of a press conference with Ms. Lich, Mr. Barber, Keith Wilson (then legal counsel for the Convoy leaders) and several others.”
“Keith Wilson explains that the truckers are asserting their s.2 Charter rights,” the TDF noted.
LifeSiteNews reported on the press conference, which took place at the end of January 2022, at which Lich reaffirmed her group was working with local law enforcement.
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