A defiant pastor is in hot water for not complying with the Canadian governments legislation regarding pandemic restrictions and spreading misinformation but says, I will not obey this court order.
According to Fox News, Pastor Artur Pawlowski has been previously arrested for holding services in Calgary, Alberta, against COVID rules. In this latest development, he faces several contempt charges by holding services and ejecting armed officials who tried to inspect his sanctuary for COVID compliance. His warning to American citizens includes, Youre nextif theyre coming for me, they will come for you too..
The Polish-Canadian pastor compares his sanction to compelled speech like in China and North Korea. With tens of thousands of dollars in fines and costs, Court of Queens Bench Justice Adam Germain imposed another probationary condition which requires Pawlowski to recite the following every time he speaks in public:
I am also aware that the views I am expressing to you on this occasion may not be views held by the majority of medical experts in Alberta. While I may disagree with them, I am obliged to inform you that the majority of medical experts favour social distancing, mask-wearing, and avoiding large crowds to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Most medical experts also support participation in a vaccination program unless for a valid religious or medical reason you cannot be vaccinated. Vaccinations have been shown statistically to save lives and to reduce the severity of COVID-19 symptoms.
Pawlowski told Fox News, This crooked judge wants to turn me into a CBC reporter or CNN reporter, that every time that I am in public, every time Im opening my mouth, I am to pray their mantra to the government.
The pastors lawyer, Sarah Miller, said the judges order is likely unconstitutional according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She said, This is totally and wholly new as far as sentencing goes, as far as I can see or as far as I am familiar with, Miller told Fox News. Ive never heard of any kind of probationary period which includes conditions that compelled certain speech. It seems highly unusual and rare.
A former politician with the Alberta Liberal Party, Germain, said the pastor claimed politicians in Canada were liars, hypocrites, and cheaters. Germain was upset with footage from Pawlowskis speaking tour in the United States, where he stated Western governments were beginning to resemble the Polish communist regime he fled in his youth.
Login