Jason Ouwendyk
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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
white-supremacist
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
movement. He is the former spokesman of the Northern Alliance
Northern Alliance (White supremacist organization)
The Northern Alliance is a far right, white supremacist organization based in London, Ontario, Canada. The group started in 1997, and has been involved in a number of public controversies. The group's leading members include Jason Ouwendyk, Tyler Chilcott, Dave Ruud, and Tomas Szymanski...
. Ouwendyk assumed the role with the Northern Alliance soon after group founder Raphael Bergmann left the group.
Ouwendyk joined the Northern Alliance in the late 1990s.
Ouwendyk had helped to organize a number of demonstrations during his tenure as Northern Alliance spokesperson. These include those protesting against the incarceration of Holocaust denier
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
, numerous protests at London
London
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Gay Pride events and at least one in which a lone Ouwendyk protested in favour of the French government's banning of the hijab
Hijab
The word "hijab" or "'" refers to both the head covering traditionally worn by Muslim women and modest Muslim styles of dress in general....
in opposition to a Muslim
Muslim
A Muslim, also spelled Moslem, is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic, Abrahamic religion based on the Quran, which Muslims consider the verbatim word of God as revealed to prophet Muhammad. "Muslim" is the Arabic term for "submitter" .Muslims believe that God is one and incomparable...
counterprotest.
Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance are being sued for libel by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman
Richard Warman
Richard Warman is an Ottawa-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission from July 2002 until March 2004...
. The Northern Alliance website
Website
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had been down for some time in the fall of 2005, but it was placed back up on the internet again in July 2006. Ouwendyk ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2004 and his bankruptcy trustee accepted the $12,500 damages claim against him in full to be paid out at roughly forty cents on the dollar over the next five years, the rate for all creditor claims.
Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance are the subject of a complaint made to the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Commission
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is a quasi-judicial body that was established in 1977 by the government of Canada. It is empowered under the Canadian Human Rights Act to investigate and try to settle complaints of discrimination in employment and in the provision of services within federal...
by lawyer Richard Warman
Richard Warman
Richard Warman is an Ottawa-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission from July 2002 until March 2004...
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