Overview

• Crown prosecutors have requested a seven-year sentence for Tamara Lich and an eight-year term for Chris Barber following their April mischief convictions
• Barber’s defence counsel has urged Justice Perkins-McVey to grant an absolute discharge so he avoids a criminal record
• Justice Heather Perkins-McVey will weigh the demonstration’s disruption and documented costs—$55 million for policing and over $7 million in municipal expenses—before issuing her ruling
• Several Conservative MPs, including leader Pierre Poilievre and deputy leader Melissa Lantsman, have denounced the proposed sentences as disproportionate and politically motivated
• Two days of sentencing submissions are set to conclude Thursday when the Ontario Court delivers its decision