A country-music singer and songwriter got emotional in court as she explained why she decided to perform twice at the 2022 blockade at Coutts, Alta.
Lyndsay Butler says COVID distancing rules slammed her music career to a halt in 2020, and then slammed it again a year later when she was denied work for not disclosing her vaccine status.
Butler was called as a defence witness at the trial of Anthony Olienick and Chris Carbert.
They are in court in Lethbridge, charged with conspiring to murder police at the blockade.
The protest tied up cross-border traffic for two weeks in the fight against COVID rules and vaccine mandates.
The defence is calling to the witness stand a range of people who went to the barricades.
They want to show that the accused were part of diverse group of earnest individuals who believed they had no choice but to resist a totalitarian government bent on ending individual freedoms.
More to come.
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