Three years and millions of dollars later, it is now clear that the process was the actual punishment.

’Freedom Convoy’ organizer Pat King was sentenced to three months of house arrest in an Ottawa court this morning.

It comes on top of nine months he spent in custody both before and during his trial.

King’s lawyer had this to say about the eager beavers on the prosecution side:

The 10-year sentence sought by the Crown would have made King “a political prisoner”, she said. “They would be sentencing Mr. King for the sum total of everything that was done by every individual in the Freedom Convoy.”