If you happen to be backing the wrong political horse, Canada appears to be regressing back to the Middle Ages where trial by ordeal was commonplace. It now looks like the justice system, or what passes for it these days, won’t be through with Tamara Lich for several more months.
Freedom Convoy personality Tamara Lich said Friday that her joint trial with Chris Barber has again recessed and she doesn’t expect the defense to begin summarizing its case until “hopefully 10 days in mid-March” 2024. That means a verdict shouldn’t be expected until at least the summer.
One should bear in mind that this trial began on the Tuesday after the Labor Day long weekend in September.
They are called struggle sessions. Commonplace in the old USSR, and and with the ChiComms. The 7th rate party hack lawyers a.k.a. judges will do the Party’s bidding here in Canada as well.
Just was checking the Democracy Fund website to find out what the verdict was and got this news. Three months of trial for mischief charges and still not done? Canuckistan is one stinking putrid shithole.
Unfortunately correct, for now ajl. Our country desperately needs to be see the departure of the worst Prime Minister ever. I wonder if we could bribe him, say USD$600m to play LIV golf like Jon Rahm. It would be a lot cheaper than keeping him around.
There are much cheaper and more efficient and effective methods than that.
What a travesty this is. It would not surprize me if there weren’t some changes in the criminal trial system over it.
Not to be disrespectful but did you suffer recently from a blow to the head, perhaps from a coconut falling from the tree? Changes in the system? It is doing exactly what it is designed for. The grinding down of the examples to keep the lessers off kilter and compliant
On the whole,judges aren’t big on their courts being abused in this way. They often have little choice — due process is their bread and butter — but it can make them cranky.
As an example, in 2016 the Supreme Court set new guidelines to ensure trial dates weren’t extended indefinitely.
Farmerboy: Lol, my point exactly.
Legal fees are the government’s ultimate revenge.
They must be hellishly afraid of Tamara. Can you imagine JT facing her everyday in Question Period should she jump into federal politics.
They want to keep her and Chris Barber out of circulation whenever there’s a federal election. The Liberals are already looking at political annihilation given the way public support has been trending for the last six months. These two, along with outrage over Justatwit’s carbon taxes, housing shortages, homelessness and inflation, will be sufficient to wipe the party out.
We’re talking about Kim Campbell-scale demolition. Nothing left but burned out rubble. Daddy was smart enough to flee politics before he was thrown out, leaving John Turner to inherit his disaster. Justatwit has no one except Garden Gnome Barbie. My wager is that she won’t want it at all, given the trainwreck she will then own.
Don’t over estimate ham shanks, what’s she going to do for a side hustle?
I doubt Trudeau and the LPC are afraid of Lich, they’re probably more afraid of who she might inspire, maybe someone who really knows how to organize. There could be a Mao, Fidel,or Ho lurking in Canada.
In federal politics, every question she asked would be deflected just as Trudeau and all his Cabinet Ministers do every day. Canada needs a Nigel Farrage type, but he would probably be suspended from the House on the first day.
Remember that the object is to defeat Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, even if he is no longer the leader. And the only way to do that is to vote CPC, the only viable opposition. Last election 26 seats went to the Liberals due to vote splitting and naive/stupid conservatives voting for Maxime Bernier and the PPC, the party with NO seats and the party that probably never will have any seats.
So f*** your alleged “principles”, take one for the country, vote CPC despite their warts or stand on the moral high ground, a badly disguised manure pile, and look in from the outside while the Liberals continue to destroy the country.
It’s up to us.
Your terms are accepted. I, and many others, will vote PPC and your phony “conservative” party can burn in hell. You’ve just admitted you have no principles but to seize power, you’re the exact same as Justin.
“Your terms are accepted. I, and many others, will vote PPC and your phony “conservative” party can burn in hell. You’ve just admitted you have no principles but to seize power, you’re the exact same as Justin.”
Couldn’t have said it any better myself. Thanks.
The CPC knows exactly what they have to do to win our votes *back* (an important point, since we would never have turned to the PPC if the CPC had not abandoned their own principles), don’t they?
That puts the ball squarely back in their court now. I won’t be coerced, shamed or bullied into voting for the CPC by anyone holding the specter of another Liberal win over my head. I reflexively reject that kind of fearmongering, and would remind the so-called “Conservative’ Party of Canada that I don’t need to seek their approval or support, they need to seek mine. If you want my vote back, you know exactly how to get it. But if you still refuse to make the necessary changes to regain my support? Then DON’T COME CRYING TO ME when Justin Trudeau wins again.
If that should happen, you had your chance. Whatever further destruction he causes to Canada will be on YOUR head, not mine.
There is a segment of the population that will always vote Liberal, so I doubt they’ll ever see Avril Phaedra “Kim” Campbell type numbers for the natural governing party. If we’re lucky and all conservatives and moderate progressives vote against the Liberals,they might be reduced to 40 or 50 seats.
Half of Quebec and the Maritimes will always love their Red guardians.
One thing that a hard process does accomplish is it makes people harder as well. More resistant to intimidation, and more likely to remain pissed,
It creates more adversaries.
The first chapter of the Gulag Archipelago contended that the NKVD was worse than the Gestapo because they wanted charges when the determination of guilt was irrelevant while the Gestapo was actually interested in determining guilt. Canadian political show trials are more like the NKVD (predecessor to the KGB). We aren’t quite there yet because a jury will still have the last say but the process is definitely the punishment. The state doesn’t like to be challenged and the more cancerous it becomes the closer we’ll get to the Soviet / Fascist level of totalitarianism.
“No Socialist Government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp, or violently-worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance. And this would nip opinion in the bud; it would stop criticism as it reared its head, and it would gather all the power to the supreme party and the party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of Civil servants, no longer servants and no longer civil.”
Winston Churchill, 1945
Trudeau needs to be gotten rid of. And the one preventing it is his lap dog Jugmeat.
Singh gets everything he wants, and Trudeau takes the heat. Why would Jagmeet change anything?
Lich isn’t on trial, Canada is.
My guess is they’re trying to get her to plead guilty to lesser charges, then tack on terrorism riders to it to vastly expand the possible sentence.
If the good ol USSR of A can do it, why not our northerly neighbor?
The Liberals and their minions saw the weaponization of the justice system with the political show trials south of the border and wanted a piece of that action.
Tier 2 Canada’s most Liberal connected employees are hard at work.
When’s the separation referendum in AB/Sask. ?
If you see it from another perspective, Tamara wins, because she can keep on rockin’ in the free world, full of grace and talent, which makes little, talentless Trudeau angry, yet, still impotent and unable to play a guitar.
This political show trial will blow up in his face. If not, then this country is done.
Paging anyone in the justice system…wake up…puleeze!
Hopefully, if (when!) the Conservative leader takes his rightful earned place as Canada’s new grownup PM, one of his first pieces of legislation will be an immediate pardon, followed by a meaningful legal inquiry, with the inquiry having the legal power to recommend having all criminal convictions expunged for Lich et al, implemented by follow-up legislation through the House so rules.
One of PM Poilievre’s first & most important jobs will be the resetting of this country back onto parliamentary Rule of Law again (and maybe someday a meaningful Charter)…
Bruce, Don’t hold your breath!!! It’s still a uniparty, just that it will be liberal lite a for a couple of years!
Yeah, I’ll hold my nose and support the Cons, but if I really had a choice it would be PPC, but we need the turd GONE FIRST!
Canada is a broke joke and justice no longer exists.
VOWG, You spelt it wrong, “just-us” is closer to correct. It’s a big club, but we ain’t in it!