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COVID charges dropped against Canadian politician who opposed mandates, lockdowns
From LifeSiteNews
Prosecutors in Peterborough, Ontario withdrew charges against former MPP Randy Hillier related to Covid gathering restrictions.
Canada’s Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms announced Monday that COVID-era charges against former independent Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Randy Hillier have been dropped.
In an X post, the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) wrote about the good news, noting that prosecutors in Peterborough, Ontario, “have withdrawn charges against Hillier “related to Covid gathering restrictions.”
While Hillier’s charges in the Peterborough area have been withdrawn, the JCCF said that “charges in other jurisdictions remain, but lawyers funded by the Justice Centre (@fleurycx) continue working toward full resolution.”
In April, Hillier won an appeal in his Charter challenge to COVID lockdowns.
Hillier was a fierce opponent of mask and COVID-19 jab mandates, having spoken at many anti-lockdown and pro-freedom rallies for well over a year. He was arrested for speaking out against Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s COVID mandates.
As LifeSiteNews has reported, other charges against Hillier were eventually stayed.
For a time, Hillier was banned by the Ontario Court of Justice (OCJ) from posting anything on social media related to the Freedom Convoy of 2022 or his participation in it. Additionally, he had financial sureties imposed on his family and was, for years, severely hampered in his ability to speak or move freely as part of his bail conditions.
Hillier, who had once been a member of Ford’s PCs, was booted by the party in 2019 and for years sat as an independent for the riding of Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston.
COVID vaccine mandates split Canadian society. The mRNA shots themselves, approved for use in Canada, have been linked to a multitude of negative and often severe side effects in children.
The jabs also have connections to cell lines derived from aborted babies. As a result, many Catholics and other Christians refused to take them.
Over the years, the JCCF has helped many Canadians fight COVID-era-related fines.
From LifeSiteNews
Quebec becomes the second Canadian province to stop offering COVID jabs for free.
Quebec has become the second province in Canada to stop giving people the mRNA-based COVID jabs for free.
Starting in the fall, people in the province will have to pay upward of $180 to get a COVID shot, confirmed the province’s Health Department in an email sent on Thursday.
The reasons for the change, according to the province, are that most people have been exposed to the COVID-19 virus, as confirmed by the province’s Health Department in an email sent out on the matter. The department admitted that healthy adults’ own immunity to the virus does not need priority for the jabs.
While most will have to pay for the jabs, it will remain more or less free for people over 65, health care workers, and people with continued health issues.
The province of Quebec saw some of the most stringent COVID mandates in Canada, including at one point, curfews.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, the province of Alberta became the first in Canada to announce that COVID jabs would no longer be free.
Last June, leftist politicians in Alberta were outraged after the United Conservative Party (UCP) government under Premier Danielle Smith announced that anyone who wants COVID shots will soon have to pay for them themselves.
The change in COVID jab policy is no surprise given Smith’s opposition to mandatory shots.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, early this year, Smith’s UCP government said it would consider halting COVID vaccines for healthy children.
Last week, LifeSiteNews reported on how a new report shed light on the “harms caused” by COVID-19 lockdowns and injections imposed by various levels of government as well as a rise in unexplained deaths and bloated COVID-19 death statistics.
The mRNA shots have also been linked to a multitude of negative and often severe side effects in children, and all have connections to cell lines derived from aborted babies.
Many Canadian doctors who spoke out against COVID mandates and the experimental mRNA injections were censured by their medical boards.
From LifeSiteNews
With a sentence hearing coming up on October 7 and the possibility of facing seven years in jail, Tamara Lich responded to a supporter by saying, ‘I trust His plan for me.’
Freedom Convoy co-leader Tamara Lich, who faces a potential seven-year jail sentence for her role in the 2022 protests, says she has put her “trust” in Jesus regarding the outcome of her trial sentencing verdict.
On Wednesday, a Lich supporter offered kind words, telling her, as well as colleague Chris Barber, that they and their “families are lifted to The Lord in prayer and support from ALL Canadians who see this political persecution for what it is.”
“Never forget that. Your stand for freedom and insight for our NATION is ABSOLUTELY Amazing. You are HEROES. Thank you,” X user “bob” wrote in reply.
In response, Lich wrote, “Thank you for your support and kind words.”
“I trust His plan for me,” she added.
X user ‘‘bob” had replied to Lich’s post on September 14 about an update to her and Barber’s looming sentencing verdict.
Lich was arrested on February 17, 2022, in Ottawa. Barber was arrested the same day.
The sentencing trial for Lich and Barber took place in July in a hearing. Earlier this year, they were found guilty of mischief in their roles in the 2022 convoy.
As reported by LifeSiteNews, Lich revealed that the Canadian federal government is looking to put her in jail for no less than seven years and Barber for eight years.
A sentencing hearing has been scheduled in their case for October 7 in Ottawa.
Earlier this week, LifeSiteNews reported Lich called out Canada’s Department of Public Safety for “lies” after it boasted via an internal audit that it acted with a high “moral” standard in dealing with the 2022 protest against COVID mandates.
Both Lich and Barber were the main faces of the 2022 Freedom Convoy, which descended upon Ottawa demanding an end to all COVID mandates.
In early 2022, the Freedom Convoy saw thousands of Canadians from coast to coast come to Ottawa to demand an end to COVID mandates in all forms. Despite the peaceful nature of the protest, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government enacted the never-before-used Emergencies Act (EA) on February 14, 2022.
During the clear-out of protesters after the EA was put in place, one protester, an elderly lady, was trampled by a police horse, and one conservative female reporter was beaten by police and shot with a tear gas canister.
Trudeau revoked the EA on February 23.
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