Note: As I’m posting this, the Canadian government has just announced its conditional intent to recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N. this fall. I’ll have more on that tomorrow.
Now, onto today’s story.
The Ontario Crown Attorney’s Association is hitting back after Conservative Party politicians — including leader Pierre Poilievre — came out swinging for the organizers of the freedom convoy.
These MPs said the sentences the crown is seeking for Tamara Lich and Chris Barber are “excessive and vindictive,” suggested that it’s “political vengeance,” and one MP even mused they’d “probably be better off” if they were “temporary residents”
Classy.
Meanwhile, Pierre Poilievre pointed to the this as evidence of the “insanity of the Liberal justice system.”
These posts have prompted the Ontario Crown Attorney’s Association President, Donna Kellway, to issue a warning — one that they rooted in the “horrifying daily attacks on the prosecutorial independence of our southern neighbours.”
I reached out to two lawyers about this. It turns out Kellway was right to raise the alarm here.
Let’s talk about it.
