[4] James Oler is the current bishop of the Canadian FLDS, who are centered in Bountiful, British Columbia, Canada.
[6] Oler and Blackmore were arrested by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in January 2009 and charged with polygamy.
[10] He, along with Winston Blackmore, face up to five years in prison for violation of Section 293 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
[12] On 27 June 2018, Justice Sheri Ann Donegan sentenced Blackmore to six months' house arrest.
[13] In May 2019, Oler was found guilty of taking a 15-year-old girl to the USA in 2004 to be married to an older man (a member of the FLDS Church), with Justice Martha Devlin saying there was "no room for doubt" that Oler knew the underage girl would be subject to sexual contact.