A Freedom Convoy organizer is fighting the Crown’s attempt to seize his bright red big rig, which was used in the 2022 protest.

As Swift Current, Sask., trucker Chris Barber waits to hear if he’ll be sentenced to prison time for his role in the convoy protest, which filled downtown Ottawa for three weeks beginning in late January 2022 to challenge vaccine mandates and other pandemic measures, he is also fighting the Crown’s forfeiture application to take Big Red, his 2004 Kenworth long-haul truck, valued at more than $150,000.

“It is Mr. Barber’s position that he followed the instruction of the police as to where to park Big Red and that he moved Big Red at the request of the police when it was safely feasible for him to do so, as such Big Red was not used in the commission of the offenc

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