Jason Ouwendyk

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Jason Ouwendyk, right (carrying "Free Zundel" placard), at a 2004 protest in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. Melissa Guille is in the foreground.
Jason Ouwendyk, right (carrying "Free Zundel" placard), at a 2004 protest in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel. Melissa Guille is in the foreground.

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.

Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance are being sued for libel by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman. The Northern Alliance website had been down for some time in the fall of 2005 [2] however, the website was placed back up on the internet again in July 2006. 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.[3]

Jason Ouwendyk and the Northern Alliance are the subject of a complaint made to the Canadian Human Rights Commission by lawyer Richard Warman.

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