Calgary Police Denies Issuing Arrest Warrant for Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s Son

A police vehicle is shown at the Calgary Police Service headquarters on April 9, 2020. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press)

The Calgary Police Service denies having issued a warrant for the arrest of pastor Artur Pawlowski’s son, Nathaniel Pawlowski. The pastor made the claim on social media on July 7.

“A check of our systems shows no warrants and we are unaware of any active investigations involving this individual,” said Calgary police in an email statement to The Epoch Times.

“The Calgary police has issued a warrant for Nathaniel Pawlowski,” Mr. Artur Pawlowski said on Twitter. “We did not have to wait too long for the retaliation of the tyrannical Canadian government after Nathaniel’s powerful speech that he delivered on July 4, 2023 at the European Parliament!”

Mr. Nathaniel Pawlowski said on the podcast Viva Frei on July 7 that upon returning from Belgium, his passport was flagged and he was informed by Montreal customs that he had a warrant out for his arrest in Calgary.

“So within the last couple of days, there was a warrant issued. And they actually did something similar to my father when he was in the United States doing a speaking tour exposing what the Canadian government is doing. This obviously is what they’re doing to me. They’re punishing me for exposing Canadian tyranny on foreign soil,” he said.

During his speech in Brussels on July 4, Mr. Nathaniel Pawlowski said Canada had “fallen” and claimed the country had lost its freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and right to protest during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Anyone who does so is arrested, charged, and jailed as political dissidents. My father was just found guilty of inciting mischief for giving a sermon to the truckers when they went and stood for our rights in 2022,” he said.

Back in early May, Mr. Artur Pawlowski was found guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue their blockade of the Coutts Canada–United States border crossing during the Freedom Convoy protest, as well as breaching a release order and willfully damaging or destroying essential infrastructure. He was charged both criminally and under Alberta’s Critical Infrastructure Defence Act (CIDA).

Crown prosecutors argued back in February 2022 that Mr. Artur Pawlowski’s 20-minute speech to truckers in Coutts, Alberta, convinced them to dig in at the Canada–U.S. border crossing for another two weeks, despite a deal they had made to leave the border and head to Edmonton on Feb. 3, 2022. The protesters then decided to stay at the blockade for two more weeks.

Mr. Artur Pawlowski was also charged with violating COVID-19 public health restrictions nearly two years ago, but the charges were stayed by the crown in December 2022.