It didn’t come as a surprise to Marco Van Huigenbos, but it wasn’t the outcome he had hoped for.
Van Huigenbos, Alex Van Herk, and Gerhard Jazen were all convicted of mischief over $5,000 for their involvement in the Coutts border blockade.
“There was some hope that I would have received a more favourable verdict, but my expectations were that I wasn’t (going to),” Van Huigenbos told Global News outside the Lethbridge Courthouse.
The blockade shut down cross border traffic between Canada and the U.S. for two weeks in 2022, in protest of COVID-19 rules and restrictions.
Sarah Jones has more on the verdict and what happens next.
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Don't mess with Coutts is the lesson of the day
Sorry about your luck, it was all for nothing.
Mischief? Then why were they in prison?
yeah..I agree..we need a new flag..when i see the maple leaf flying I just see protest..I got news for these guys..The pandemic sucked for everyone..the people in charge did the best they could …the majority of the world did the same…now the carbon tax..it sucks for everyone..but we have to do something..doing nothing is not an option..if you have a better idea please share it…change starts with the individuals..communities will follow..Now everyone go home and be nice to each other.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. They're lucky that's all they got.
Disrupting one border crossing for 2 weeks is definitely worse than shutting down a global economy for 2 years…
Mischief? There isn’t a smaller charge in the entire Criminal
Code. Maybe spitting in public … is that still on the books?
LOL someone frantically deleting comments
I’m in Port Macquarie – there’s a kid, in a Pram/Stroller playing a game on an iPhone… kid is maybe 2…
Justice served.
Canada kept this people in jail for 2 years without a trail for mischief.
Largest gold heist in Canadian history and the criminals were released the same day.
Global News is much better than CBC News tbh. ??
Ah, at least the people behind convid are walking free
at least the designers of covid are free
Probation. Calling it.
What are they going to charge the Pallestinian protesters fo closing down the port I Vancouver
Politicizing the Justice system. Nothing new in Trudopia.
These 3 guys are lucky and are benefiting from Trudeau and the Liberals being soft on crime. If not, they would be and should be spending the max 10 years in prison.
Independent thought is a kryme in the USA as well. It's the Lefftist ? that get away with anything.
The Emperor is guilty of far far more than that .
The RCMP should also be charged and put in jail also Thay wrecked a couple of excavators, by cutting electrical and fuel lines and spray foaming them shut but that's ok?
At least they weren't stealing cars and getting stabby and shooty downtown. ?
The truckers were representing what this country this all about.. Its you who are looming around and causing mischief in the true purpose of this country.
The government needs remorse not the people
I am sure Mr " Van Huigenbos " & " Mr Van Herk " & other learned a lesson that in Canada you don't blockade border to make a point of your kind ?
Remorse??? , for what? Exercising the right to protest?
These 3 freedum guys benefitted from Trudeau’s soft on crime.
at least the criminals behind covid are still walking free. . .
Stupid Klanberta hillbillies.?
Well at least they didn't violate the Canadian Charter of Rights like prime minister Yu No Hoo did enacting the Emergency Act.
Pro Palestines blockaders are committing "Mischief " aren't they .
boys wanting to have their 15 minutes of fame got them jail time, what a lesson, now grow up boys
What a joke country we live in…
an illegal blockade, is a violation of other people's rights to freedom of movement.
You want to protest, go right ahead and protest, but you do NOT have the right to block other people's access along a public road or a border crossing, only law enforcement can do that, and even then under very specific reasons.
But when you actively block others, you have crossed the line from protesting, to enforcing your own will over the free will of other people. You have actively taken the decision to violate other people's freedom of movement.
Funny how these people always talk about "freedom", and yet they don't seem to care about violating everyone else's freedoms, only their own.
So "Freedom" to them, means they should have the "freedom" to remove other people's freedoms.
The only people who cheer this buffoon and the rest of the so called "Freedom" convoy idiots, are people who simply think they are above the law and somehow that the rules simply don't apply to them. The sense of entitlement is both astonishing as well as idiotic.
This is too weird, cuz as we go towards an election you'd think the gov't would retract & start representing the Canadian people, of which there are many & varied.
Hahaha! Awesome. Justice!
So, mischief comes with a 2 year prison sentence now?
So what do the RCMP get for vandalizing all of those vehicles?
Nice to see them get sentenced. keep them in jail!!!
Crooked
Mischief over $5000 ?
What was Damaged or Stolen etc.???
Clown show ,you know who really should be in prison?
So what was the Mischief????
The real crime is the graphic design on that stupid no more mandates sign. What a bunch of clowns.?
Protesting is illegal in Canada, unless you're protesting for criminals or terrorists. Then it's ok.
But will the pro hamas terrorists who blocked rail roads and poured concrete on tracks face any charges?