[4] Kirby described most of the Outlaws he met in Florida as Vietnam veterans who had been unable to adjust to civilian life and who were full of rage and hate.
[4] McEwen, by contrast, was deeply impressed with the Outlaws and became the main advocate within Satan's Choice of an alliance with the American club.
[4] In June 1975, Guindon formally made an alliance with the Outlaws, agreeing to have Satan's Choice sell methamphetamine and PCP manufactured in northern Ontario for resale in the American Midwest.
[10] On several visits to Chicago, McEwen was courted by Harry Joseph "Taco" Bowman, the president of the American Outlaws, which increased his sense of self-importance.
[10] In August 1975, Guindon visited a hunting lodge at Oba Lake in northern Ontario owned by Alain Templain, the president of the Oshawa chapter of Satan's Choice.
McEwen informed the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) of the PCP factory and when it was that Guindon would be visiting Oba Lake so they could arrest him.
[10] On the night of 6 August 1975, a group of undercover OPP officers raided a shack located on an island in Oba Lake and discovered Guindon and Templain with CAD$6 million worth of PCP tablets together with PCP-manufacturing equipment.
In one of his first acts as national president, McEwen arranged for a common "association patch" between the Outlaws and Satan's Choice, allowing for equality between the two clubs.
[15] O'Reilly and Arksey both supported McEwen's plans to have Satan's Choice "patch over" to the Outlaws, while Lacombe remained non-committal for a time.
[16] Feelings against him were very strong as one Satan's Choice biker, Steve Erslavas, stated: "I don't like to say anything bad about anybody except Garnet McEwen – he was a backstabbing, fucking prick.
[18] Fearing that his life was in danger, McEwen fled to Alberta where he ended up working as a dishwasher at a restaurant located in a Calgary hotel.
[25] McEwen died in Saskatoon aged 66 on 27 January 2012, a broken and forgotten man whose dreams of taking over the outlaw biker scene in Canada had failed dismally.