James Bauder

James Ralph Bauder (born 1969 or 1970) is a Albertan truck driver, the cofounder of Canada Unity and Founding organizer of the Canada convoy protest.

Biography Bauder (born 1969 or 1970) is truck driver, married to Sandra Bauder. 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.

Bauder and his wife Sandra co-founded the Canada Unity group that protested public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic. The group's Facebook page was registered in late 2019, during the United We Roll movement.

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.

In November 2022, at the public enquiry into the Canadian government use of the Emergencies Act, Bauder testified that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was guilty of treason and that God told him to start the convoy. Later that month, Bauder called for a second Freedom Convoy to Ottawa in mid February 2023. Bauder's bail conditions at the time of his call prevent him from visiting the centre of Ottawa. On August 31, 2025, a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest was issued after he failed to appear in court in Ottawa following a summons to face criminal charges for his role in the protest.