Bauder (born 1969 or 1970)[1] is truck driver,[2] married to Sandra Bauder.[3]
Bauder was involved in the United We Roll protest in 2019 that protested the Canadian federal government's environmental protection rules.[4] Bauder has shared QAnon, and anti-vaccination views on his social media channels, where he also challenged the official account of New Zealand's Christchurch mosque shootings.[4][5]
Bauder and his wife Sandra co-founded the Canada Unity group that protested public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.[3][6] The group's Facebook page was registered in late 2019, during the United We Roll movement.[7]
Bauder and less than 100 other protestors drove to Ottawa in October 2021 in a protest they called Convoy for Freedom before he was one of several people who jointly and loosely organised the January 2022 Canada convoy protest.[6] Bauder was arrested in February 2022 as police were ending the Canada convoy protest.[6] He was charged with disobeying a lawful court order, mischief to obstruct property, and obstructing a peace officer.[6] His request to relocate his criminal trial out of Ottawa was denied in February 2023.[8]
