SASKATOON – A ban on publication of the complainant’s names in the case against Travis Patron, former leader of the now defunct Canadian Nationalist Party has been issued. Judge Bruce Bauer granted Crown Prosecutor Tom O’Hara’s request Friday in Saskatoon Provincial Court.
Patron was scheduled to have a bail hearing Friday but it was adjourned to Tuesday.
Patron, now 32, was convicted of hate speech last year. Facing his new charges, he has refused to speak in court even when asked direct questions by the judge.
Patron has been in custody since he was arrested Aug. 2 and charged with impersonating a peace officer, criminal harassment, and failing to comply with court-ordered conditions, in two separate incidents.
The incidents are alleged to have occurred on July 29 and Aug. 1 in Saskatoon. One was at the U of S campus and the university released his photo warning staff and students that Patron wasn’t to be on campus.
Court documents show that Patron now lives in Saskatoon. He used to live in Redvers.
In October 2022, Patron was convicted by a jury in Estevan Court of King's Bench of hate speech against an identifiable group. Last year he was also convicted on two counts of assault causing bodily harm against two women in late 2019, and sentenced to 18-months.
Patron ran in the Souris-Moose Mountain constituency in the 2019 federal election, finishing sixth. The Canadian Nationalist Party has since been de-registered.
-With files from David Willberg
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