One of the organizers of the “Freedom Convoy” protest that snarled downtown Ottawa in 2022 faces a Canada-wide warrant after failing to appear in court earlier last week.
James Bauder, a 55-year-old from Calgary, was charged with mischief to obstruct property, disobeying a lawful court order and obstructing/restricting a peace officer in February 2022.
Bauder is the founder of Canada Unity, an organization that gathered signatures for a petition that called for governments to end all vaccine mandates, passports and other “discriminatory regulations and initiatives” and for a “cease and desist order” to be issued to elected members of parliament.
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According to posts on his social media account, Bauder fled to the U.S. earlier thi