Fri Dec 9, 2022 – 12:11 pm EST
OTTAWA (Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms) — The Justice Centre is pleased to announce that the charges against freedom convoy protestor J.W. were dropped on November 18, 2022. J.W. was a participant in the peaceful protest in response to the invocation of the Emergencies Act in February of 2022.
The Freedom Convoy was a peaceful demonstration that protested the trucker vaccine mandates the Trudeau government imposed in January 2022. In response to the peaceful demonstrations, the prime minister took the unprecedented step to invoke the Emergencies Act on February 14, 2022, to suppress the peaceful protests, and freeze bank accounts of protestors without a court order.
The Justice Centre sought the assistance of criminal defence lawyer Mr. Sam Goldstein to represent J.W.
On February 19, 2022, J.W. was charged with interfering with the lawful use and enjoyment of property of downtown Ottawa residents, failure to obey a court order, and obstruction of justice for failing to identify himself to police.
The court order J.W. allegedly disobeyed was made under the provincial declaration of emergency, to deal with the Windsor bridge blockades. The order was created specifically to clear
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