Two organizers of the Freedom Convoy who wanted $200,000 from funds frozen by the court, and held in trust pending a class action lawsuit for honking during the Ottawa protest earlier this year, were turned down by a judge on Dec. 6.
Chris Garrah and Benjamin “BJ” Dichter argued at a hearing on Nov. 15 that they required access to some of the roughly $5 million of funds raised for truckers now held in escrow, to pay for upcoming legal fees.
Garrah and Dichter filed the court application to unfreeze funds, stating it was to defend against an ongoing roughly $306 million lawsuit brought by Zexi Lee, a 21-year-old federal government employee, and various Ottawa businesses that allege they were harmed by incessant honking, diesel fumes, and other disruption during the three-week protest in the nation’s capital earlier this year….