Jason Ouwendyk
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Jason Ouwendyk (1969) is the former spokesman of the London, Ontario, Canada-based Northern Alliance and a white supremacist. 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. In 1998 Ouwendyk, a Brink's driver, revealed confidential information about his work to another white supremacist. When the police raided his home, they found racist paraphernalia, a .38-calibre handgun and eight rifles and shotguns. Ouwendyk was fired from his Brink's job and was banned by the court from possessing firearms for a period of five years.[1]
Ouwendyk had helped to organize a number of protests during his tenure as Northern Alliance spokesperson. These demonstrations include those protesting against the incarceration of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel, numerous protests at London Gay Pride events and at least one in which a lone Ouwendyk protested in favour of the French government's banning of the hijab in opposition to a Muslim counterprotest.
It had been rumoured that the Northern Alliance has disbanded. That the Northern Alliance website had been down for some time lended credibility to the claim that the Northern Alliance had disbanded, however, the website was placed back up on the internet again in July 2006, ending speculation that the Northern Alliance was now defunct. Ouwendyk's role in the Northern Alliance is, at this point, uncertain. On December 3, 2005 Ouwendyk participated in a protest in support of Brad Love along side Paul Fromm and Melissa Guille, calling into question any thought that he has left the racist movement.
Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance were sued for libel by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman. Ouwendyk ultimately filed for bankruptcy protection in December of 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.[2]
Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance are the subject of a complaint made to the Canadian Human Rights Commission by human rights lawyer Richard Warman. [3]
