@GradyTripp00:
The only good thing to come from this trade war with that motherfucker Trump is that the Canadian flag has been returned to regular Canadians after it had been co-opted by those clownvoy fucks.
I love my community so much … I am heartbroken by the trauma that is being inflicted on me and my neighbours … to feel like a prisoner in my own home by people who claim to stand for freedom.
Zexi Li
The Ruling:
March 6, 2025: Decision and Reasons on Defendants’ Anti-SLAPP Appeal (2025 ONCA 169)
Heard: October 28, 2024
4.5 months to rule.
Compare to supreme court of Canada taking a year and a day to rule in Ernst vs AER on a much simpler matter, with Rosalie Abella making shit up in her ruling to denigrate me.
BETWEEN
Zexi Li, Happy Goat Coffee Company Inc.,
7983794 Canada Inc. (c.o.b. as Union: Local 613)
and Geoffrey Devaney
Plaintiffs (Respondents)
and
Chris Barber, Benjamin Dichter, Tamara Lich, Patrick King, James Bauder, Brigitte Belton, Daniel Bulford, Dale Enns, Chad Eros, Chris Garrah, Miranda Gasior, Joe Janzen, Jason Laface, Tom Marazzo, Ryan Mihilewicz, Sean Tiessen,
Nichloas St. Louis (a.k.a. @NobodyCaribou),
Freedom 2022 Human Rights and Freedoms, GiveSendGo LLC, Jacob Wells, Harold Jonker, Jonker Trucking Inc., and Brad Howland
Defendants (Appellants*)
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@8maggiemay:
Is there a go fund me for the citizens of Ottawa who are challenging the freedom convoy? I would happily donate.
Thanks for you hard work Paul.
@PaulChampLaw:
Yes. It helps offset our disbursements.
DONATE HERE Ottawa Convoy Class Action Zexi Li v Chris Barber et al.
But the donate button goes to a link that is currently not working www.ottawafund.ca.
A few years ago, I donated by sending a cheque to:
Champ & Associates, Re Zexi Li
43 Florence St
Ottawa, ON
K2P 0W6
Phone: 613-237-4740
Fax: 613-232-2680
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@PaulChampLaw March 7, 2025:
Good news for people of downtown Ottawa. Ontario Court of Appeal dismissed Freedom Convoy appeal today, allowing class action to proceed. ONCA found claim has substantial merit and evidence showing serious harm.
Freedom to protest must be balanced with rights of others.
Special thanks to Reidar Mogerman from @CFMLawyers for arguing appeal while I was in another trial. Great result! Looking forward to certification motion and working with Canada’s foremost social justice class action firm.
….the families who live in downtown Ottawa were pretty happy with our firm when we obtained the horn injunction after the police and provincial and federal governments were doing nothing to protect our community.
@citynuuchimii:
you saved lives. literally.
@frau-evil666.bsky.social [to the comments by Jim Elliot]:
fucking 100% brilliant and perfect.
@jujubee76.bsky.social:
I really hope that gets certified. Fuck those assholes.
@deb2468.bsky.social:
Canadians going for justice against a bunch of criminal lunatics
@chakula.bsky.social:
All the power to you. The Freedom Convoy was the worst anti-Canadian demonstration ever. They stole our flag, desecrated the Tomb of the unknown soldier, and displayed swastikas for starters.
beeflower.bsky.social @beeflower.bsky.social:
Threw bricks through business windows that had all are welcome here stickers on their front doors?
Just al, Ontario @chakula.bsky.social:
Oh what a disgusting bunch and a nightmare for Ottawa residents.
beeflower.bsky.social @beeflower.bsky.social:
Thank you! It was tricky at the time since the major news outlets only posted stories on the safer days, so we were considered weak/whiney for complaining/counter-protesting
Non-Ottawa folks were also surprised that this wasn’t the first and only protest we’ve ever had
Just al, Ontario @chakula.bsky.social:
Really since I’m not from Ottawa I am also surprised. Hopefully these other protests were not as bad.
beeflower.bsky.social @beeflower.bsky.social:
We have protests often about all sorts of topics (I love democracy in action). Perhaps weekly?
I and/or friends attended re rights for Indigenous nations, women, 2slgbtqia+, climate action, censorship, Palestine, opposing krasnov’s visits during first term, safety for sex workers, French language
Just al, Ontario @chakula.bsky.social:
Nothing wrong with a sensible protest. But as you say, the Freedom Convoy was a totally different protest.
It wasn’t a protest, it was a siege and attempt to over throw our democratically elected gov’t. Musk, Putin and Trump prepping Canada for their Nazi invasion.
America Is An Enemy State @goodie-fx.bsky.social:
Truckers are going to get hit pretty hard in this trade war. Good job geniuses, working so hard to pull everything to the hard right and bring Trump back. Hope this is what you wanted
Seven @sevenbrg.bsky.social:
Most of the convoyers weren’t real truckers.Some of them were rental drivers, could barely drive the rigs I’m sure the convoyers are real not happy with Poilievre falling in the polls though 🙂
Phillips Penny @phillips3856.bsky.social:
Don’t forget who served them donuts and coffee as well as the MP’s who backed him
Hyralt @hyralt.bsky.social:
I used to live in Ottawa. I know several folks who couldn’t sleep or feel safe walking the streets during the convoy. I hope the convoy pays for what they did.
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I hope those bastards get everything that’s coming to them.
Wendy.Kavanagh @livinginafog.bsky.social:
I hope they bankrupt every one of the idiots.I expect some of the funders behind the scenes are billionaires, they won’t notice if they are hit with damages
cathy88JB@cathy88jb.bsky.social:
I hope a class action happens and although I am in ottawa but not downtown I was horrified and I’m not over it polievre
beeflower.bsky.social @beeflower.bsky.social:
Same
@rickja.bsky.social:
I hope they get every damn nickel plus more!
Hey…..tell the plaintiffs to ask Poilievre for a huge donation. He supported them throughout their takeover of Ottawa. In fact…shouldn’t you be suing him too?! He was on TV saying he supports the truckers.
Donna Taylor @lildonna.bsky.social:
Amen. One of my friends daughter went through that Hell!
Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social:
Remember that Brad Wall was an active advisor to them.Super douche fucker
Dr Greg Argue @whatsthepointsk.bsky.social:
Hopefully he is named in law suit.
Ryan Brook, PhD. Chairman of the Boar @ryankbrook.bsky.social:
That would be soo sad..
Norma Jane @normajane.bsky.social:
Ahhh let us enter the FO stage of proceedings.
Very Stable Genius @theoneandonlyivor.bsky.social:
No sympathy. Also never forget the Polly boy who stood in lock step with them and expressed unconditional solidarity. Remember Polly boy and all the other MPs who stood with them at the next election.
tollerlover05.bsky.social @tollerlover05.bsky.social:
And Doug Fraud, who totally seemed to forget that Ottawa is even a part of Ontario
Snowmobiling is hard work.
Tee KoobaanI AM CANADIAN @teekoobaan.bsky.social:
Fantastic news!
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Karma, b!tches
Kevin @iamkevinb.bsky.social:
290 million? That is a lot of tic toc, rumble and IG videos they have to make hating on Trudeau to earn that kind of scratch should they be found libel.
@cantankerouscanuck.bsky.social:
Just goes to show that being an ignorant asshat Freedumb fighter ain’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Kara Fagan @fagankara.bsky.social:
FWIW the class action certification process is long
Todd Chavez @tchav.bsky.social:
The maple maga morons are fired up on Facebook tonight.
@stevinyeg.bsky.social:
This is why the people paying for it didn’t do it themselves. Their goals get achieved, somebody else gets stuck holding the bag.
Congrats on getting played, “freedom convoy”.
Proposed class action lawsuit against ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizers clears hurdle, Convoy class action survives by The Canadian Press, Mar 6, 2025, Castanet
A proposed class action lawsuit against those who allegedly organized and funded the “Freedom Convoy” protests cleared another hurdle on Thursday when the Ontario Court of Appeal refused to dismiss the case.
Some downtown Ottawa residents and businesses are suing for $290 million, alleging personal suffering and business losses from the 2022 protest.
The lawsuit has not yet been certified as a class action.
The defendants tried to get the case thrown out of court by arguing that their protest was in the public interest, but the Court of Appeal upheld a lower court’s ruling allowing the lawsuit to proceed.
In court documents, the defendants say they plan to argue they were following police direction when they parked their trucks in Ottawa’s downtown core.
The Court of Appeal panel said it saw no evidence to suggest that “police directed the truckers to remain parked on public streets” for as long as they did, or to “honk their horns with the frequency and intensity they did.”
“(The motion judge) understood the political motivation and goals of the convoy protest, and he understood the harm the residents and businesses in the protest zone contended they had suffered as a result of how the protest was conducted,” Justice David Brown wrote on behalf of the three-judge panel.
Brown said he saw no error in how the lower court weighed the harm to the residents and businesses against the public interest element of the protest.
@GSostakas:
Great news!
Our right to protest does not mean we can infringe on the rights of others.
#1 right infringed was on all Canadians. That being our right to vote. They tried to force our recently elected gov’t to step down & be replaced with a group of their choosing. They tried to nullify the vote of every single Canadian.
@GSostakas:
Precisely. I will defend peoples right to protest, but it cannot infringe on the rights of others. What the Freedom Convoy did to the people of Ottawa was unconscionable. Wish I could set up similar protests outside of their homes (for 3 weeks) so they might start to understand.
@seanMackenzie1:
The convoy made life hell for anyone downtown. People were not safe to walk in certain areas without fear of being attacked. Horns kept people up all night. The impact on air quality from all the trucks running idle downtown, and the harassment of people and employees was wild.
@Consfusion2024:
Freedumb convoy are completely opposite of peaceful protests by other groups. How many people block roads, blaring horns day & night and terrorize people none stop? Protests are over in a few hour max VS weeks, clown!
@BurchatLouella:
it wasn’t a Convoy it was an occupation& any other protest that turns into that kind of sh** show should get the same treatment, in that respect it’s a great precedent & where are they now? in light of what Trump is doing to Canada? where are those freedom Ioving Occupiers now?
@MTrebaldt:
Protests are civilized & done in respect of others. What the Freedom Convoy (Canadian TEMU version of MAGAs) did by blocking the city with big trucks was uncivilized. FK the Freedom Convoy.
@KatPaws:
Excellent news at a time when good news is desperately needed.
@fromthevalley63:
Great news! Time for these treasonous morons to be accountable for the all the damage & suffering they caused!
Any chance that Poilievre & his MPs that supported this shitshow will also be included?
@Spudders22:
PeePee should have been included in the lawsuit.
Funny: