Tamara Lich, the leader of Freedom Convoy 2022 and one of the most important people in the protest movement, was arrested in Alberta on suspicion of breaking the rules of her bail.
Tamara Lich is a Canadian activist who lives in Alberta. In 2018 and 2019, she helped plan the Yellow Vest protests in Medicine Hat, Alberta.
She was also one of the people who started the Wexit movement, which became the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta later on.
In February 2022, Tamara was accused of helping to organise trucker protests against COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine requirements.
During protests by truckers and their supporters that shut down the streets of Canada’s capital for almost a month, Lich was one of nearly 200 people who were arrested.
As a result, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared an emergency for the first time in 50 years. This gave the government a lot more power to get things back to normal.
Tamara Lich, an activist from Alberta, was arrested
Tamara Lich was arrested again in June 2022 in Medicine Hat, Alberta, for allegedly breaking the terms of her bail. She had already been arrested in February 2022.
Keith Wilson, a lawyer from Edmonton on the Freedom Convoy legal team, confirmed the news.
Lich was charged with mischief, counselling mischief, and other crimes related to the convoy protests in Ottawa in January and February of this year. He is currently out on bond.
Lich’s bail conditions are very strict, so she can’t use social media to protest vaccine requirements. Wilson says the police told her they could keep her in jail for up to six days while they set up a way to get her to Ottawa.
Lich went to Toronto to get the George Jonas Freedom Award from the Justice Center for Constitutional Freedoms. He then went back to Alberta. She spoke about freedom, but she didn’t say anything about the convoy.
During a hearing this month to review Lich’s bail, the court rejected the Crown’s claim that she had broken her parole by planning to get the prize.
Tamara Lich arrested because she broke the terms of her bail
Tamara Lich was picked up in Alberta because she was thought to have broken her bail. Lich was arrested in Ottawa on February 17, 2022, on suspicion of telling other people to do bad things.
As a result of the Emergency Act being used by the federal government, she was arrested in Ottawa in February and later released on bail.
Lich was currently under strict bond conditions that say she can’t use social media, disagree with mandatory vaccinations, or “verbally, in writing, financially, or in any other way support anything related to the Freedom Convoy.”
Tamara was arrested again in June 2022. Her lawyer, Wilson, said that he is still trying to figure out why she was arrested, but he thinks it might have something to do with breaking the terms of her bond.
What happened to Tamara Lich?
Tamara Lich was arrested in Alberta because she may have broken her bail. Tamara Lich will be held by the police for six days while they wait to be taken to Ottawa, the police said.
Tamara set up a now-defunct GoFundMe campaign that brought in more than $10 million to pay for the protest in Ottawa, which turned into a two-week occupation.
At a bail review hearing earlier this month, the Crown’s lawyers tried to convince the judge that Lich had broken her bail conditions by wanting to accept the prize, but the judge didn’t buy their argument.
Tamara Lich’s Husband
Tamara Lich is married to Dwayne Lich, who goes by the name Wayne Lich. Tamara’s husband also spoke up for her, but at the hearing before, no decision was made about bail.
Tamara hasn’t told us much about her personal life, though, so we don’t know much about her husband.
Lich has been a fitness instructor, an administrator at Medicine Hat STEP Energy Services, and a musician. He has also played in the Alberta band Blind Monday.
Tamara Lich, a right-wing activist from Medicine Hat, Alberta, planned the divisive yellow vest protests in 2018 and 2019, as well as the protest with the Canada convoy in Ottawa in 2022.
She also helped start the West movement, which later turned into the Alberta Wildrose Independence Party.