Tamara Lich, centre, walks into the Ottawa Courthouse with her lawyer Lawrence Greenspon Sept. 5, 2023, the day her trial began. As their trial enters its second week, defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon looked to block the testimony of eight or nine Crown witnesses whose testimony he cast as irrelevant to anything at issue in the case. "If that evidence was to be called as part of the trial, then we're perfectly entitled as the defence to call a whole bunch of businesses that prospered during the Freedom Convoy." The Crown lawyer in the trial of lead convoy organizers says evidence from the people and businesses who lived through the convoy is 'critical.' One of the witnesses on the Crown's list is Zexi Li, a plaintiff in a civil trial against the convoy organizers.

Source: CBC News September 12, 2023 14:59 UTC