Court to consider whether Lich, Barber were co-conspirators at end of trial

The judge in the criminal trial of two Freedom Convoy organizers has dismissed a defence application and agreed to consider arguments that the two accused acted as co-conspirators.Freedom Convoy organizers Chris Barber and Tamara Lich appear at the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa in 2022. The judge in the criminal trial of two Freedom Convoy organizers has dismissed a defence application and agreed to consider arguments that the two accused acted as co-conspirators.

In her decision, Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said despite a lack of direct evidence, there was enough circumstantial evidence to create an "inference of a common unlawful design." She will now consider the Crown's co-conspirator application at the end of the trial.Perkins-McVey said in her decision that she recognized there were multiple convoy and various groups that came to Ottawa for different reasons, including some who were not influenced by Barber and Lich.

"These are the inferences that can be drawn, and that they mandated others to remain in Ottawa until the COVID mandates are removed, or the demands of the Freedom Convoy met," her decision reads.

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