Canadian pastor jailed for holding church during COVID welcomes pardon, blasts Trudeau

A clergyman from Alberta, Canada, who was repeatedly imprisoned after not closing his church praised a plan from the province's new premier to pardon and compensate those arrested and fined over COVID-19 protocols. "It's a step in the right direction, but I would like to see it being done," Pastor Artur Pawlowski told Fox News Digital in a phone interview. Pawlowski, who is now running for political office after becoming leader of the Alberta Independence Party in September, has endured multiple dramatic arrests during the pandemic, including once in the middle of a busy Calgary highway on his way home from church and again on the tarmac of the Calgary International Airport after a speaking tour in the U.S.-- More...