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New York Post<\/h2>\n

Oh, Canada\u2019s hypocrisy! \u2018Freedom Convoy\u2019 protesters face ludicrous prison <\/a>\"\"<\/a>sentences for mere \u2018mischief\u2019<\/a><\/h1>\n
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By James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n
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Published <\/span> Aug. 2, 2025, 10:00 a.m. ET<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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According to Canada\u2019s top prosecutors, the only thing worse than tyranny is \u201cmischief.\u201d\u00a0 And the worst possible \u201cmischief\u201d is objecting to tyranny.<\/p>\n

In a sentencing hearing earlier this week, the Canadian government sought a ludicrous\u00a0eight-year sentence for Chris Barber, one of the leaders of the Covid \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d protest that riled Ottawa in early 2022. For another leader, Tamara Lich, the Crown asked for an outlandish seven years.<\/p>\n

In April, a court ruled that Barbers and Lich were not guilty of obstructing police or intimidation during the demonstrations. But they were convicted of \u201cmischief\u201d \u2014 in part because the truckers in the 40-mile convoy honked their horns to protest some of the most oppressive Covid mandates in the world.\u00a0 4<\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Crown prosecutor Siobhain Wetscher justified the harsh prison sentences saying \u201cit\u2019s difficult to imagine an offense of mischief with greater impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ironically, that was the same way that many truckers felt about the Canadian government\u2019s Covid mandates.\u00a0\u00a0And now Canadian prosecutors are hounding the former protestors, pretending that a Canadian judge did not raze their entire legal house of cards a year ago.<\/p>\n

From the start of the pandemic, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acted as if Covid entitled him to absolute power. Anyone who refused to get the approved Covid vaccines was castigated as a public enemy.<\/p>\n

Trudeau responded to the trucker protest\u00a0by invoking\u00a0the Emergencies Act, effectively dropping a legal nuclear bomb on his opponents. Canada\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland announced that the government was \u201cbroadening the scope of Canada\u2019s \u2026 terrorist-financing rules so that they cover Crowd Funding Platforms and the payment service providers they use.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trudeau government did not formally redefine horn-honking as a terrorist offense but that didn\u2019t impede their crackdown. Banks were authorized to freeze the personal accounts of anyone suspected of donating to the truckers.<\/p>\n

The Covid vaccines were catastrophically failing to prevent infections at the same time Trudeau dropped an iron fist on anti-vax protestors. Almost 90% of Canadian adults had been vaccinated by the start of 2022 as Covid cases were soaring, setting records almost every week.\u00a0 Even though he was vaxxed and boosted, Trudeau himself came down with Covid during the trucker protest.<\/p>\n

Trudeau pretended that no Canadian had a right not to get injected because he personally proclaimed that the Covid vaccine was safe.\u00a0But the rushed approval process ignored potential adverse side effects. (The Food and Drug Administration now requires formal warnings about Covid vaccine risks of pericarditis \u2014 stabbing chest pains \u2014 and myocarditis.)<\/p>\n

In January 2024,\u00a0Canadian federal judge Richard Mosley ruled that Trudeau\u2019s use of the Emergencies Act had been unreasonable, illegal and unconstitutional. Trudeau\u2019s regulations \u201ccriminalized the attendance of every single person at those protests regardless of their actions.\u201d\u00a0 The judge slammed \u201cthe absence of any objective standard\u201d for freezing bank accounts, but the court decision provided no relief for any of the victims whose bank accounts were unjustifiably seized or whose freedom and privacy was shredded.<\/p>\n

America saw similar absolute immunity for politicians who fueled fear and fabricated emergencies to seize absolute power, including New York Governor Andrew Cuomo\u2019s disastrous decree forcing nursing homes to accept Covid patients, President Joe Biden\u2019s illegal vaccine mandate for large private companies and Covid Czar Tony Fauci\u2019s presidential pardon for sending U.S. tax dollars to the Wuhan Institute of Virology that killed 7 million people worldwide.<\/p>\n

The persecution of trucker protestors is a stark reminder of the two-class system that permeated the pandemic in Canada and the U.S.\u00a0There were no true \u201clockdowns.\u201d Instead, the laptop class and officialdom stayed home and enjoyed full salary, while the comparatively downtrodden delivered their groceries, fancy meals, and endless knick-knacks from Amazon.<\/p>\n

But all those doorstep deliveries were forgotten when the Canadian political and media elite teamed up to vilify any citizen who didn\u2019t submit to official commands. All the judicial precedents established since THE Magna Charta CARTA? were practically expunged by a ruling class that justified even\u00a0Quebec\u2019s idiotic Covid<\/a>\u00a0decree prohibiting people from leaving their homes at night<\/p>\n

Perhaps the best punishment for the two Canadian trucker protest leaders would be to televise them standing in front of a blackboard where they write a hundred times: \u201cI\u2019m sorry I objected to tyranny.\u201d\u00a0 An even more apt punishment would be to compel all the Canadian politicians and officials who enforced oppressive Covid policies to wear ashes, sackcloth, and a sign: \u201cI\u2019m sorry for my tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Is a little \u201cmischief\u201d the only way to get politicians to heed a Constitution?<\/p>\n

James Bovard is the author of 11 books, including \u201cLost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty.<\/a>\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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