The blockade tied up traffic for two weeks at the busy Canada-U.S. border crossing in a protest of COVID-19 measures
Katherin Beyak made the comment during cross-examination of an RCMP firearms expert.
Her client, Chris Carbert, and his co-accused, Anthony Olienick, were arrested in 2022 after police seized a cache of weapons, ammunition and body armour from trailers near the blockade.
The blockade tied up traffic for two weeks at the busy Canada-U.S. border crossing in a protest of COVID-19 measures and vaccine mandates.
Olienick and Carbert are also charged with mischief and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and Olienick faces a further charge of being in possession of a pipe bomb.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 10, 2024.