Former candidate in federal election sentenced on assault charges

The self-proclaimed leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party has received an 18-month sentence on two counts of assault causing bodily harm.

Travis Patron was sentenced Tuesday in Regina Court of Queen’s Bench. With credit for the time he spent on remand, Patron’s sentence amounted to one day on each charge, to be served concurrently.

He also was ordered to provide a DNA sample and was given a 10-year firearms ban.

But even with that matter dealt with, Patron remains behind bars; he’s in custody on other charges.

A Regina jury found Patron guilty of the two assault charges in late June. The Redvers man represented himself at the trial.

According to Regina police, Patron was arrested in connection with an incident that happened Nov. 2, 2019 in the city.

Police said officers were called to Victoria Avenue near Broad Street at about 2:30 that morning for a report that two women had been assaulted. The women were visibly hurt and were taken to hospital for treatment, police said.

The police investigation determined the women had been talking to a man earlier in the evening, and he assaulted them when they declined his offer of a ride home.

Patron was arrested and charged a week later.

Patron ran for the Canadian Nationalist Party — which has been criticized for its far-right stance and an ideology perceived by some as hateful and racist — in the 2019 federal election in the Souris-Moose Mountain riding. He finished last with 168 votes.