Trevor Wowk has been remanded into custody and is scheduled to appear in court again later in July.
A Regina man who once ran as a candidate for the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) is facing a number of criminal charges.
Trevor Wowk made an appearance in Regina provincial court Thursday. The 62-year-old man was in custody, and as such, appeared before the judge from the prisoner’s box.
He waved from behind the glass at a woman sitting in the gallery.
He appeared on a charge that alleges between July 20 and July 23, at or near Regina, he intended to “provoke a state of fear” in a police officer in order to impede him in the performance of his duties.
Wowk also faces two additional charges relating to offences alleged to have happened on June 12, 2020 at or near Regina. The first alleges that he knowingly used a forged document (confirmation of employment letters) as if it were genuine. The second alleges he knowingly possessed the identity information (the name and signature) of another person “in circumstances giving rise to a reasonable inference that the information was intended to be used to commit the indictable offence of fraud.”
Court records show those earlier charges were brought in June, at which time Wowk signed an undertaking including conditions that he not contact the person whose identity information he allegedly possessed, and that he not possess any identity document not in his own name.
Records indicate he was taken into custody when the intimidation charge was brought against him.
The Crown was opposed to Wowk’s release from custody Tuesday.
However, Wowk’s lawyer, Andrew Hitchcock, said discussions with the Crown relating to bail had begun, and he asked for the judge to order a report that explores the option of electronic monitoring.
The judge asked Wowk if he understood what was happening.
“I believe so, your honour,” the accused man said.
With that, he was remanded back into custody at the Regina jail, to reappear in court on a date later this month.
Wowk ran as a PPC candidate in the 2019 federal election in the riding of Regina—Lewvan. Election results indicate 573 ballots were cast in his favour, for 1.1 per cent of the overall vote.
In the run up to the election, he called out Regina’s Cathedral Area Community Association (now the Cathedral Village Community Association) for not inviting him to a candidates forum, referring to it as a “globalist leftist-leaning community centre” and accusing its board of trying to keep people from hearing his message.
At the time, the community association stated it was only inviting candidates whose parties were polling above five per cent nationally.
The Leader-Post cannot verify the veracity of the CBC report.
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