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The criminal trial of "Freedom Convoy" leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber has adjourned after more than 30 days of evidence and arguments, and is expected to resume in January.

Lawyers in the criminal trial of co-organizers of what became the Freedom Convoy are at odds over the legality of the protests in Ottawa during the winter of 2022. 

The lawyers involved in the criminal trial of two "Freedom Convoy" organizers are finally confronting the central question of the case: whether or not the 2022 protest that gridlocked Canada's national capital for weeks was a legal expression of Charter rights.

Text messages retrieved from the cellphone of Freedom Convoy leader Chris Barber show contact with a former Saskatchewan premier and a current provincial politician leading up to and during the 2022 protests in Ottawa. 

The Crown is expected to lay out its case for why evidence against one 'Freedom Convoy' organizer should apply to the other in the criminal trial of two of the protest's leaders.

Prosecutors are arguing that Lich and Barber worked so closely together that evidence against one of them should apply to both

OTTAWA — The blockades and "occupation" of downtown Ottawa streets in 2022 were part of a conspiracy among "Freedom Convoy" organizers to gridlock the capital in protest against COVID-19 public-health measures, the Crown alleged Thursday.

The blockades and occupation of downtown Ottawa streets in 2022 were part of a conspiracy among Freedom Convoy organizers to gridlock the capital in protest against COVID-19 public-health measures, the Crown alleged Thursday.

The criminal trial of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber saw Crown prosecutors detail Thursday why they think two leaders of what became the Freedom Convoy acted in a preconceived conspiracy to commit criminal acts during their time in Ottawa.