OTTAWA — Prominent Freedom Convoy organizer Chris Barber was sentenced to 12 months of house arrest and six months of curfew Tuesday, avoiding jail time for his role in the 2022 blockade. Article content

“The accused committed a serious crime of mischief,” Ontario Court Justice Heather Perkins-McVey told a packed downtown Ottawa courtroom Tuesday. Article content

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“The accused’s actions have had a significant detrimental effect on the citizens of Ottawa, who wanted nothing other than to carry on living in their community without having horns honking day and night, the roads impassable, blocked by noising trucks emitting diesel fumes, making it impossible at times to even exit their own building.”

Barber’s conditional sentence begins with 12 months

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