Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich attended a second ceremony on Aug. 11 honouring her with the annual George Jonas Freedom Award from the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (JCCF).
“The new Canada taking shape does not resemble anything I want for my grandchildren,” Lich told the audience. “In fact, for many of us, we hardly recognize our beloved country anymore.”
The JCCF, a legal advocacy organization, has awarded the George Jonas Freedom Award for the past five years to honour “one individual each year who has contributed significantly to advancing and preserving freedom in Canada.”
Lich received the award for “[inspiring] Canadians to exercise their Charter rights and freedoms by participating actively in the democratic process, and [for taking] the initiative to help organize a peaceful protest and serve as one of its leaders.”
She said in her speech that basic freedoms in Canada are under attack.
“All the routine pleasures—the stable life, your belief that people are fundamentally good—that you naively took for granted, they’re all dissolving before our very eyes,” she said.
“If you thought the last two years were tough, were nonsensical, then you'd better prepare yourself for the future,” Lich said in her speech. “People are going to lose their minds, and one big challenge is for us to keep sane and keep focused and not let hatred and division get the better of us.”
“When the so-called pandemic came along two and a half years ago, the Canadian administrative state culled this fertile ground and they wasted no time in doing so,” he said.
