After a turbulent trip through Canada’s legal system, Justice Adam Germain ruled that pastor Artur Pawlowski would not face more time in prison but would instead have to pay fines, face compelled speech, and contribute public service hours.
The Canadian judge says that he was disturbed that Pawlowski dared to speak with a foreign audience on Fox News and publicly embarrass the Canadian government that had persecuted the pastor.
Germain is upset that Pawlowski went on Fox News and embarrassed the govt and the court system in the land of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 13, 2021
Moreover, Germain says that publicly criticizing health orders is not permitted unless you represent both sides of the debate. Germain then issued statements that the defendants must now utter to represent the government’s wishes.
He also called Pawlowski’s previous comments a taunt and said that Pawlowski was practically begging for more jail so he could make himself out to be a “martyred Christian.”
Pawlowski was arrested, again, in late September immediately upon returning from a freedom tour in the United States where he had the opportunity to preach the gospel and tell his story of persecution at the hands of the Canadian state.
Justice Germain says Pawlowski’s new sentence will include the three days already served in jail, $3,000 for breaching one health order, $20,000 for breaching another, and will have to contribute public service hours while on parole.
Art Pawlowski sentence: 3 days already served in jail. $3000 for breaching Gates order, $20,000 for Rooke order and service hours (which should be easy enough), and probabtion.
— Sheila Gunn Reid (@SheilaGunnReid) October 13, 2021
Pawlowski will have 36 months to pay these fines.
Today’s sentence is only one of many which Pawlowski has attained since the COVID pandemic began.
Pawlowski was previously arrested in May for the audacity of having in-house church gatherings — a violation of Alberta’s health orders. And that arrest came only a month after he infamously kicked police officers out of his church while shouting “Gestapo” at them in a viral video.
The Alberta Health Service wanted jail for Pawloski, but fortunately, he has managed to skirt by. However, he may not always be so fortunate given his adamant opposition to authoritarianism and Canada’s tyrannical trajectory.
