Wed Apr 5, 2023 – 5:54 pm EDT
OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – Freedom Convoy protester Christine DeCaire was acquitted by an Ontario Court of Justice on of all charges placed against her for participating in pro-freedom protests last year while the Emergencies Act (EA) was in place.
The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF) said in a press release Monday that DeCaire was arrested in 2022 for standing on Nicholas Street in downtown Ottawa after the invocation of the EA.
She was charged with mischief, obstructing and resisting an officer in the execution of his or her work and disobeying a lawful order, according to the JCCF.
DeCaire said in a press release that she feels “very fortunate to have this dealt with and over already.”
She added that the results from the court’s decision “was exactly what it should be.”
As noted by the JCCF, DeCaire was arrested on February 18, 2022, and despite being charged “stood by her Charter right to be presumed innocent throughout – a presumption that the Crown failed to refute.”
DeCaire remained adamant that she had done “nothing to warrant an arrest.”
The JCCF noted that despite requesting a lawyer within minutes of
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