Court proceedings for a number of those involved with the Coutts Freedom Convoy protest will be resuming soon; pre-trial hearings for Tony Olienick and Chris Carbert resume on March 18, and the trial of Marco Van Huigenbos, who had become the de-facto representative of the protesters at Coutts, and a number of his co-accused, get under way on April 2.
Pre-trial hearings for Van Huigenbos and Co. wrapped up recently, and some interesting responses from the Crown to defense applications took place.
Bookmark it for new developments.
Ezra was following the jury selection yesterday on X.
While we’re waiting for the next juror, the scene:
1. One judge.
2. Five clerks.
3. Three defendants.
4. Three prosecutors.
5. Four defence lawyers.
6. Two cops.
For a mischief trial.
Lots of money and wages being wasted for a nothing offence.
Coulda had a pickle factory…
Yes indeed Canada is broken. The level of stupid and ignorance in courts and law system is appalling.
Reminds me of the January 6 “trials”.
This is not just Turd Jr. this is the lib-dip group of ass holes that gave us the lib-dip flag for Quebec.
When I see protesters wrapped in the lib-dip flag I wonder if there is any hope for Canada.
I think not.
GO WEXIT
The thing that bothers me most is the belief
of many people that we live in a free democracy . Restrict your movement, coherse you to take experimental treatments, lie about the safety, seize your property, bankrupt you with false accusations,control and subversion of dissenters speech, lock people up without dew processes, legislate what you can say, detain without reasonable cause and on and on and on. I just wonder, where is the line?
I think this is the reason why these men were arrested and held under inhumane conditions for two years:
“The media have also failed to ask many questions downstream of Mendocino’s testimony at the POEC, such as if these claims about the men at Coutts were a matter of political convenience for legitimating the Emergencies Act…Without Coutts, there is no violence, nor threat thereof, anywhere at any protest site.
Without Coutts, Rouleau’s Public Order Emergency Commission ruling falls apart.”
I suspect the Trudeau Liberal-NDP government arrested and kept them in remand custody hoping the men would confess to something, anything to justify the Emergencies Act. Like with Lich and Barber, the actual and objective evidence of their crimes is virtually nonexistent.
There are two groups LC.
Coutt’s 4 were locked up for 2 yrs in remand (2 are still held, now 26 months) charged with plot to murder RCMP.
Coutt’s 3 were not locked up. These guys were at the border at Coutt’s and have mischief charges.
Yes, 2 groups but the same motivation. The Trudeau government needed to have “extreme” protests in more than one province to enact the emergencies act.
We have a communist federal government in Canada.
I noticed that no party refused their pay raises.
And what did we the peons get, more taxes!
Makes me sick watching this political show trial going forward, perhaps they should get them some pro-Hamas swag and wear it in court it seems to be a “No cops will get involved” pass these days.
If we threw our shoe at them like Muslims do, they’d make laws to be shoeless in their events.
The police are now classified as just as corrupt for not arresting the rampant lawlessness ruling our Parliament.
Looking at comments on legacy media, the one sputtered repeatedly by the majority of idiots is: “Don’t come down on the police for interfering with the protests, they’re just following orders.”
There are still too many walking brain-dead in this country. The Gestapo was also following orders.
Where were the firearms found? What were the circumstances? How many did belong to the defendants? How many belonged to others not charged?
If the firearms were merely present, in the same sense that some crimes are considered to be “gun crimes” merely because a firearm was present, but not in any way involved, then no charges should have been laid, and the prosecution and the RCMP officers and undercovers should all be charged with conspiracy and given the maximum penalty.
But if the Coutts 4 deliberately brought the firearms to the protest, then that’s on them. I’m not saying they deserve the treatment they got, but they should get some sort of charge.
Many questions, and few answers. I lean toward the RCMP being untrustworthy in this, and fully capable of lying, or planting evidence. They DID vandalize the excavators, after all. There is ZERO trust here.
The firearms were unrelated. Rumours also indicated the firearms were legally owned and stored. Thank the registry for giving the Gestapo something to present to TurdHole.
Were any of the RCMP officers or command involved in the Wiebo Job? or does the culture of impunity at the RCMP still exist?
Which officer or officers damaged the excavators? Who ordered them to do it? I bet that damage was more than $5000, so why aren’t they charged?
Next up is a woman approx. 45 years old smiling from ear to ear. She says she’s worried she’ll be “a little biased”. She’s excused right away.
Other than age and gender, that has been ME … every time I’ve been called as a juror. Why? Because I’ve been self employed for nearly my entire career and two weeks of lost productivity, when you’re raising 3 kids isn’t worth providing my civic duty. Sorry. I know that sentiment is wrong, and has probably denied some defendant an intelligent juror who actually understands much about the real world including the Law, but my first responsibility is to my family.
I always formulated an answer that would get me booted immediately from the jury. However, I was a little more stealthy about it and didn’t crack a grin until I was exiting the courtroom. It’s always worked … with ONE lone exception when I was voir dire‘d on a case when a career criminal was charged with attempted murder of a sheriffs deputy. We were given background on the case which included the use of a sawed off shotgun. I responded that anyone possessing a sawed off shotgun has it for one reason only – to commit murder. Shockingly! The defense kept me, and the Judge didn’t boot me. Perhaps they were thinking that my profession is about 90% leftists and that perhaps I was a leftist, criminal rights gun-a-phobe who would be sympathetic to the criminal scumbag? Who knows? Oh well, after two weeks of trial, we sent the creep to spend the rest of his life in prison. Duty done. Never served since … and that was in the late 1980’s.
Does anyone have the right to demand to not be excused? The lottery of getting called up in the first place.
You brought me here, you don’t get to boot me because you don’t like my possible opinion.
Best time to be called up if you don’t want to serve on a jury is December & August. The system wants their Christmas holidays, and summer vacation.
It isn’t like they are trying to intimidate protesters . Oh well, haven’t found a video of them beating anyone -yet.
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