my understanding is that chris barber is a scary guy and probably should be in jail. however, ms. lich is five foot nothing and utterly harmless. she ended up at the centre of this by accident and is guilty of nothing more than free speech.

she's not a criminal, she's a hero, and the crown risks martyring her if they go full islam on her.

this is, however, just another data point in the ongoing collapse of canada's legal system into a totalitarian right nightmare, like you'd expect in a theocratic state. we're falling into backwardsness and fundamentalism and we don't have forever to stop it. these systems are notoriously hard to overthrow when they assert themselves in place.

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/selley-tamara-lich-seven-years-for-mischief-vs-one-day-for-terrorism