Freedom Convoy co-organizer Tamara Lich was honoured with the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms' (JCCF) 2022 George Jonas Freedom Award at a dinner Thursday night in Calgary..“The new Canada taking shape does not resemble anything I want for my grandchildren,” said Lich at the Thursday event. .“In fact, for many of us, we hardly recognize our beloved country anymore.” .Lich said the last two years have shown with every crisis, there are two separate crises. She said these two crises are “the actual event and the chaos sown from the paranoia that follows that event.” .She went on to say establishment figures cannot silence her. The truth will prevail and be told. .Lich said people need to take risks. The change-makers are not academics and intellectuals, but regular people. .According to her, these people are the fringe. They know how to unite, give ideas energy, and stay strong. .If people thought the last two years were tough, Lich said they need to prepare themselves for the future. .“People are going to lose their minds,” she said. .“One big challenge for us is to keep sane, keep focused, and not let hatred and division get the better of us.” .Lich’s speech came after a video documenting the mistreatment she went through was played. The video showed her asking people not to be angry before shifting to a scene from her first arrest. .Former Newfoundland and Labrador premier Brian Peckford said past judicial activism “made the soil fertile for Charter abuses in the last two years.” .“The Canadian administrative state culled this fertile ground,” said Peckford. .“And they wasted no time in doing so.” .JCCF president John Carpay said he was grateful Lich accepted the award, as the Freedom Convoy showed people were annoyed with COVID-19 restrictions. .“It ended that isolation,” said Carpay. .“That people knew they were not alone.” .Lich was ordered to be released from jail for a second time on July 26 after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found errors in the decision to revoke her bail two weeks before. .READ MORE: Tamara Lich is granted bail, again.Ontario Superior Court Justice Andrew Goodman ruled the earlier order was inappropriate. .Goodman said the previous decision had erroneous conclusions and misconstrued evidence against her.
