Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski has been found guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue their blockade of the Coutts Canada–United States border crossing during the Freedom Convoy protest, a Lethbridge judge has ruled.
“Mr. Pawlowski intended to incite the audience to continue the blockade,” said Justice Gordon Krinke in delivering his decision on May 2.
Pawlowski was charged both criminally and under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA). In addition to his mischief charge, Pawlowski was convicted of breaching a release order and wilfully damaging or destroying essential infrastructure.
While Krinke also found Pawlowski “counselled other persons to interfere with the use of Highway 4 in a manner which rendered it useless,” he has decided not to issue a conviction until a defence’s constitutional challenge to CIDA has been dealt with….