Artur Pawlowski's Campaign

CAMPAIGN - ARTUR PAWLOWSKI

A long-time promoter and defender of civil liberties and a well-known advocate of Canada’s poor and homeless, Artur (“Art”) Pawlowski is seeking to become the Leader of the Alberta Independence Party. Born in Poland in 1973, Art grew up under a Communist regime seeing soldiers with machine guns and tanks on the streets as people rose up in 1981 to fight for their freedoms, a movement that ended Communist oppression. Over the next several years, Artur worked as an entrepreneur across Europe, including as a general construction contractor, before immigrating to Canada in 1995 where he started a construction business. Two events in Art’s life led him to profound changes. In 1997, he married Marzena who transformed his life, chiefly by leading him to Christian faith.

In 2000, Art and Marzena’s infant son, Nathaniel, who was born with life-threatening congenital problems, healed after intensive prayer despite the doubts of medical professionals. As a result of these incidents, with the support of Marzena, Art began reaching out to Calgary’s homeless with food, as a street preacher with a message of love and as an advocate offering practical help to the homeless in negotiating the web of Calgary and Alberta social services. This led to the creation of “Street Church Ministries” and Art’s leadership of the “March for Jesus” – both vehicles for a message of love and practical help for overlooked and downtrodden Calgarians. Over twenty years, Art Pawlowski became known as one of the chief defenders of free speech, free association, and the rights of the homeless in Calgary’s public spaces. Art pursued this despite a campaign of harassment and unfounded arrests by the Calgary Police Service and the City, and by the Canadian and Alberta Human Rights Commissions.

From his own financial resources and with the support of likeminded people, Art repeatedly and successfully defended himself against bogus charges that ran counter to Canada’s constitutional tradition of ordered liberty. In 2020 and 2021, when the premier, public health authorities and police services began violating the protections for conducting religious services and assemblies in Section 176 of the Criminal Code of Canada, Art Pawlowski stood up and said, “No!” Sadly, before and after the so-called waiver of these protections issued by the Attorney General of Canada, Art endured arrests and highly visible takedowns by the Calgary Police Service, staged to publicly embarrass him. Instead, Art Pawlowski was made a hero for all right-thinking Albertans and Canadians who believe in standing up for ordered liberty and freedom. Artur Pawlowski currently lives in Calgary, Alberta Canada with his wife Marzena and their three children; Nathaniel, Gabriel, Maya- Grace. He continues his work on the streets with Street Church Ministries and also Pastors Church called "The Cave of Adullam" in Calgary.