While Tamara Lich says she would sit “100 years” in prison before apologizing for the Freedom Convoy, she now says she does empathize with those affected by the continuous honking and parked trucks which took over Ottawa in 2022.

And some downtown residents, who are not as enamored with the COVID-19 lockdown and mandatory vaccine resistance hero as other Canadians, have received their first conciliatory, but coded language from the patriotic freedom fighter who agrees their reaction was genuine but blames it on the way elected officials framed the events.

“There is no doubt some citizens of Ottawa felt afraid, threatened and terrorized,” said Lich in an X post she put up at 9 a.m. Tuesday. “How could they not when their mayor and politicians were labelling us as an angry mob coming to ov

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