The Propaganda arm of the Lieberal Party of Canada – aka CBC News – clearly is not happy about this:
Tamara Lich's lawyer Lawrence Greenspon spoke to me and others outside the courthouse after Tamara was sentenced to house arrest.
I asked him for one message he'd like Canadians to know about this case. What he told me was powerful. pic.twitter.com/DK0fQRymAz
— Right Blend (@rightblend) October 7, 2025
8:13 – Do people in Canada actually believe that the US is less of a free country than Canada?
Canada is not doing as poorly as we here South of the border? What?
Tamara’s attorney suffers from elbows out TDS? Have the truckers lost work due to Trump’s tariffs?
or is he suggesting that Trump’s NEED to deploy the National Guard to do the actual policing NOT being done to quell VIOLENT protests is a problem in America?
Is he suggesting that LGBTQueer-mutant freaks and random leftist incels putting bullets through head parts because of peaceful opinions and debate is a problem?
“Tamara’s attorney suffers from elbows out TDS?”
I would guess not. He’s playing to the crowd. His job is to get Tamara through an appeal successfully, and have her conviction quashed.
To do that he has to operate in a media environment filled with nothing but TDS and lies.
Let’s recall also that the Canadian Army was called out to put down this demonstration, which consisted of illegal parking, unauthorized snow shoveling, unsupervised road hockey and [gasp!] bouncy castles on the front lawn of Parliament. This is what they wanted 7 years of jail for.
So a Canadian looking at the US military getting called out to put down #Pantifa is not thinking the same thing you are, Kenji.
Understood. I detected that he didn’t want to appeal or undermine the sentences, which were not too horribly draconian … yet still a second tier punishment compared with all the “politically correct” violent leftist protestors.
And yeah, I guess when Truedope calls out the military and equine forces … it’s all for the good … but OrangebadmanBad! Still.
She’s passed four years in various forms of jail, bail and threat of imprisonment.
The Phantom:
T R U E.
And this is essentially what I try to argue with Jamie M, SDA’s chief Poilievre basher, a man who has no understanding of the realities on the ground and the need for conservative pragmatism.
Some idiot (here I believe) recently bashesd PP for not speaking out about the Ostriches without evidently understanding the phrase “a hill to die on”.
“Some idiot (here I believe) recently bashesd PP for not speaking out about the Ostriches without evidently understanding the phrase “a hill to die on”.”
Speaking of “a hill to die on”, coming out in support of the Quebec dairy cartel’s odious ‘supply management’ system was certainly not too bright of PP. Nor was voting to accuse all Canadians of genocide. I’m a conservative…I vote for people who espouse conservative policies.
correct. l picked up on PP abt half way into his present stretch.
and disappointment he’s got these 2 black marks already.
Yeah, I did a double take on that too.
“8:13 – Do people in Canada actually believe that the US is less of a free country than Canada?”
Yeah, I didn’t understand that either. Was he perhaps talking about the level of violence in the US protests over Gaza compared to ours?
In retrospect … I’m gonna go with that. And God Bless you Tamara … I did say a prayer for you yesterday. You inspire me.
I didn’t like his little dig at America but loved the rest of what he said.
I didn’t dig what he said about America … because he left his comment so open to interpretation. But he sounds a very competent Counsel who evidently got the best result possible from a Crown that wanted Tamara’s pound of flesh … and to forever dissuade conservatives from speaking their peace.
Well, Canada is a wild and wonderful place, and you can find Canadians who believe pretty much anything. I think most Canadians understand perfectly well that they are less free than the Americans, and the disagreement is over whether this is a bad thing. These remarks strike me as entirely insincere and purely performative. He has to put on a display of anti-American hatred and Trump derangement to distance himself from his wicked clients. He knows it’s crap, but this crowd demands to hear it.
If by this crowd you mean a bunch of stupid leftard journalists, why bother pandering to them.
I don’t see any benefit in that for either him or Lich.
No, by “this crowd” I mean the city and the court in which this fellow has established his practice, as well as the media that he would like to keep as sympathetic as possible. He’s acting for declared targets of the party. He cannot allow the party to see him as like them. He has to be careful to distance himself from them. And he did so carefully, diverting the media away from his clients and into their preferred racist anti-American masturbation. A man who lives among lizards learns to be generous in tossing dead flies around.
Meanwhile the criminal that caused all this Turd Jr. walks free.
Canada is broken there is no fix.
GO WEXIT
Who the hell is Greenspoon????
He’s an Irish cutler. Next question.
It is amazing that a court can say all are equal before the law after a judgement like this.
so many factors. so many unknowns. so many players.
where in blazes is this pathetic former confederation GOING??
and why why why why why do SO MANY vote for tyranny and censorship?
what is the psychology there? the rigours apply only to others?
the propaganda is fully effective? liberal voters are blissfully unaware???
l cant get a ‘handle’ on this disparity nonsense and brutishness from ottawa
Greenspon couldn’t even give a yes/no answer to Ezra Levant asking if there was a double standard with how the truckers were treated compared to the pro-Hamas protesters.
Too mealy-mouthed for my liking.
Also, he said he was happy with the result and that the goal was to prevent Tamara Lich from serving any more jail time.
A proper answer would have been:
Our goal was to ensure that she didn’t suffer any more indignities.
Not serving more jail time was a positive, but unfortunately she will have to serve 12 months of house arrest and 15 months of community service.
He’s a lawyer for goodness sakes.
As a lawyer, especially a defence lawyer, he should be a warrior for justice and call a spade a spade.
Is that so hard to get your head around.
They were targeted by the state. His job was to get them through it with the minimum damage. This was a Canadian court, justice simply isn’t on offer. Nobody needs Crusader Rabbit at a time like this. And calling spades “spades” is racist!
I fully understand that they were targeted by the state and that Greenspon did what he felt he had to do during the sentencing hearing, but that doesn’t mean he couldn’t tell it like is is afterward, especially to a bunch of nitwit journalists.
Also, I ♥ Spades.
You heart spades? Welcome to the club! Shine on, you crazy diamond! His brief is to protect his clients, not to change the world, and not to reform the lost profession of journalism. He doesn’t need them enlightened, he needs them not to bite. And he wants to give them less reason, not more, to come gunning for his ass.
He hasn’t been paid to defend the pro-hamas protesters…
yet.
Tamara Lich:
“I told Lawrence that day that I’ll serve 100 years in prison before I will ever apologize.”
https://x.com/LichTamara/status/1975914603117731949
*4 short paragraphs, worth the click.
Big whoop.
Surely Shirley, no one could be surprised.
Canada’s Trudeau Liberal Constitution is worthless.
Canada’s Liberal Courts are plain laughable.
Canada’s Media is a Liberal joke.
Canada is a country rich with Liberal myths and shibboleths.
If you think Canada is more free than the USA, you’re a Liberal moron.
The Liberal Fix is ALWAYS in.
Twas ever thus, twill ever be.
todays assignment to the liberal rich post secondaries, follow the founding of and history of the Liberal party and seek evidence they were hell bent right from the start to totally wreck this country making it easy pickings for the Chirese and WEF
Do Liberal supporters even deny that this is political persecution intended to silence critics of the Party?
They seem to be angry that the persecution wasn’t more severe.
A few takes I’ve seen on Twitter were that the judge had to give them a sentence that ‘would make both sides happy’.
In other words if she imposed too light a sentence the left would violently riot.
Ironic if the judge had considered the political fallout in her sentence.
“Do Liberal supporters even deny that this is political persecution intended to silence critics of the Party?”
As you say, they seem to feel the sentence should have been 10 years in jail, not 7, and the Crown wimped out. House arrest is a joke to them.
It’s -their- Party after all, we must do as they command. Anybody who steps out of line gets the hammer.
The entire COVID pandemic response of which the Truckers Protest was just one element has exposed not only the current (then and now) Liberal the government penchant for authoritarian / dictatorial control , but also that of the “controlled Opposition” Conservative Party under Poilievre and many people in Canada who either do not understand what is at stake , don’t care or actively support draconian policies.
Where is Poilievre now regarding the use of government to silence freedom of speech using the show-trial of Lich and Barber to set an example and intimidate anyone from objecting ? … oh but I forgot Poilievre is “controlled Opposition” … recall he forced 3 of his MP’s to publicly grovel for attending and meeting MEP Christine Anderson where she gave a presentation on freedom of speech in Ottawa near the end of COVID lockdowns.
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I didn’t care for Greenspon’s presentation much until he finally mentioned that the police directed the truckers to park right in downtown Ottawa when they had been expecting to be guided to a field outside of town.
That was good…he just forgot to mention the other most important aspect of the protest: that the Canadian government absolutely* refused* to speak to them about the issue of the vaccine mandates that started the whole thing. Justin Trudeau could have ended it easily (and weeks earlier) by promising an inquiry or Royal Commission or something. I was surprised that a lawyer of his caliber would overlook such an obvious argument.
I like how he reminded the masses that there is no enjoyment of property rights protection in the Charter and Constitution but that there was for free speech and freedom of assembly, not that governments honor those either or have any fealty for lady Justice’s once worn blindfolds.
John Chittick …
Thanks for that reminder. You are correct about the lack of property rights in the Constitution.
I recall Pierre Trudeau being asked about the lack of property rights in the Constitution. Trudeau gave a flippant answer that it would be “problematic” … for the government that is!