Randy Hillier Vows to Prosecute the Government At His Upcoming Criminal Trial
Randy Hillier Vows to Prosecute the Government At His Upcoming Criminal Trial
Hillier, who will act as his own lawyer in court, says he is planning to subpoena journalists and politicians to testify
Randy Hillier has a fool-proof legal strategy for winning his criminal trial.
After recently disclosing he has parted ways with his lawyer and plans to self-represent himself in court, the former Ontario PC MPP shared insights into his legal strategy during a Twitter Spaces group chat Friday night.
Hillier says he will attempt to persuade an Ottawa judge that the “real crime” has been perpetrated by the government, not by him.
$100,000 legal fees, and counting: Hillier disclosed he “alleviated my counsel of his legal obligations” after spending “just shy of $100,000 in legal expenses.”
“Not to disparage my previous legal counsel in any way, he is part of this monster that we have created and the only thing that feeds this monster is … our prosperity and our wealth,” Hillier explained.
“My wife and I would be homeless if I continued on that path. That’s the only thing that was absolutely certain, regardless of innocence or guilt.”
Prosecute the government: Hillier also revealed his legal strategy will revolve around turning the tables on the Crown and proceed as if the government is on trial, rather than himself.
“The real crime that has been committed has been by our government,” Hillier explained. “We must put them on trial”:
Randy Hillier: “I've already spent just shy of a $100,000 in legal expenses and the only thing that I was certain that would happen if I continued on that path is that I would lose my home, that I would be in poverty, my wife and I would be homeless if I continued on that path. That's the only thing that was absolutely certain, regardless of innocence or guilt.
And I don't want people to spend money to feed the monster.
And I don't want to feed the monster.
And I want to do battle with this monster.
And I want to fight this monster.
And I want to wrestle this monster down to the ground and defeat him.
And I can't do that if the person fighting for me is also co-opted and part of the monster in the machine.
But in addition to this, it's not just the charges against me. The real crime that has been committed has been by our government. It's not been by the Freedom Convoy people. It's not been by the No More Lockdown people. That's not where the crime has been committed.
The crime is how our government has treated us. And and we must put them on trial.”
Subpoenas for journalists and politicians: Hillier also reiterated that his legal strategy involves issuing subpoenas to “culpable” journalists, politicians and police whose testimony, he believes, will prove that the official narrative about the Freedom Convoy was not “truthful.”
Hillier declined to “release names and whatnot,” but indicated “people within the mainstream media” and “retired cabinet ministers” would be among those who will be unable to “evade the cross examination”:
“Randy Hillier: I want everybody, like, there are people that I know who are culpable and, as I mentioned in my commentary today, I know that there are people within the mainstream media who have shared with me how they were pressured not to be truthful.
I know that there are people in most senior offices within the government, in the bureaucracy, who know what they did was wrong. I know of law enforcement, senior positions, who know that what was done was wrong. But for people to understand, it is very difficult to compel an elected member of the parliament or the legislature to court.
So I will be subpoening retired cabinet ministers or elected people who are no longer in offices, who no longer enjoy that privilege that they can escape and evade the cross-examination.
Amanda Purdy: that's a very good strategy in a very good point because then they don't have parliamentary privilege. Is there anybody provincial?
Randy Hillier: Oh, yes. Very much so. I'm not going to release names and whatnot.”
Hillier is facing nine criminal charges, including assaulting a police officer, mischief, counselling others to commit mischief and resisting or obstructing a police officer.
During the group chat, Hillier noted one of the central issues in his charges relate to allegations he hit a police officer with a steel barricade, something he insists is “a total fabrication, a total falsehood.”