Tamara Lich is a Canadian activist who has organised for the right-wing Maverick Party, the far-right Yellow Vest protests, and the Canada convoy protest in Ottawa.
21 Facts About Tamara Lich
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Tamara Lich was arrested in Ottawa on February 17,2022, and initially denied bail.
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Tamara Lich was released upon appeal, then re-arrested and denied bail again.
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Tamara Lich has predominately worked in logistics in the energy field, including as a base administrator for STEP Energy Services, and as a fitness instructor.
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Tamara Lich is a guitarist and lead vocalist in the Alberta-based band Blind Monday.
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Tamara Lich was an organizer for the far-right yellow vest protests in Medicine Hat in late December 2018 and early 2019.
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Tamara Lich opposed the Oil Tanker Moratorium Act and Bill-69 that regulated the oil industry in Canada.
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Tamara Lich resigned from the board of directors of the Maverick Party in early 2022.
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Tamara Lich was a leader in the Wexit movement which later became the Wildrose Independence Party of Alberta.
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Tamara Lich left the Wildrose party to join the separatist Maverick Party where she served as a member of its first governing council.
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Tamara Lich was involved in the 2018 United We Roll protest convoy.
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Tamara Lich was a primary organizer of the 2022 Canada convoy protest in Ottawa, as well as a spokesperson and an organizer of the fundraising of the protest.
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Tamara Lich has been outspoken against forms of extremism at the protests.
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Tamara Lich was arrested in Ottawa on February 17,2022, accused of counselling to commit mischief, and held in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
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Diane Magas, defence lawyer for Tamara Lich, expressed concern about the neutrality of Justice Bourgeois on the basis that she ran for a federal Liberal Party seat in 2011.
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On March 7,2022, the bail denial was overturned, and Tamara Lich was granted bail on the conditions that she refrain from use social media, refrain from contact with other protest organizers, that she leave Ottawa within 24 hours and the province of Ontario within 72 hours, and to only return to the province for court-related reasons.
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On June 27,2022, Tamara Lich was re-arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Alberta for allegedly breaching her bail conditions.
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Tamara Lich's trial began September 5,2023 and lasted 45 days.
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When Tamara Lich visited the spectator's gallery of the Alberta Legislature in late February 2023, she was applauded by sitting politicians, after she was introduced as "a grandma, a musician, and a true leader within the freedom movement" by independent politician Drew Barnes.
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In March 2023, government prosecutors were accused of malice after phone records between Chris Barber and Tamara Lich were briefly released online.
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Tamara Lich is married to Dwayne Lich, and is both a mother and a grandmother; one of her daughters was born premature.