John Carpay is a Netherlands-born Canadian lawyer, the president of the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms, and a newspaper columnist.
[3] In 2021, Carpay supported seven churches in their legal bid to fight COVID-19 public health regulations, and during that time, he hired a private investigator to follow Manitoba chief justice Glenn Joyal.
"[5] The Law Society of Manitoba will bring professional misconduct against Carpay at a February 2023 hearing in Winnipeg.
In his statement Carpay said, "I fully acknowledge that my instructing surveillance of Chief Justice (Glenn) Joyal was in violation of my professional obligations as a lawyer to the court and to society.
In 2018, Carpay drew criticism from Jason Kenny for comparing the LGBT flag to a swastika[13] in a discussion on Rebel Media, for which he later apologised.