Chris Barber, a prominent leader of the truckers' protest, was arrested in Ottawa on Thursday afternoon Barber is the first organizer of the demonstrations to be detained, and is expected to face criminal charges Barber is one of three people - along with fellow convoy organizers Tamara Lich and Benjamin Dichter - named in a class action lawsuit filed last week by a 21-year-old woman against the noise and disruption in Ottawa Members of Canada's Parliament engaged in fierce debate over Trudeau's emergency powers on Thursday. Conservative Party and Bloc Québécois are opposed to his use of Emergencies Act against Freedom Convoy But Trudeau's Liberals and allied New Democratic Party have the numbers to secure approval of the powers Trudeau insists that his use of emergency powers is necessary to end the weeks-long protests 'It's high time that these illegal and dangerous activities stop,' Trudeau declared in Parliament Trudeau's Justice Minister David Lametti says donors funding the protest were subject to asset seizure Said they 'ought to be worried' about having their bank accounts frozen under emergency powers