Benjamin Joseph Dichter was born on 1975 or 1976 and was a leader in the 2022 Canadian convoy protest.
30 Facts About Benjamin Dichter
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Benjamin Dichter is an entrepreneur, working as a journalist, truck driver, author and podcast publisher.
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Benjamin Dichter is the founder of the LGBTQ conservative group LGBTory.
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Benjamin Dichter has been noted for criticisms against partisan divisiveness, and his criticism against political tolerance of extremism.
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Benjamin Dichter was adopted by a Jewish family and attended the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto and the York Mills Collegiate Institute.
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Benjamin Dichter is a truck driver who has worked as a gemologist, and as a print shop operator in Toronto.
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Benjamin Dichter patented an invention for motorcycles, registered in 2003.
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Benjamin Dichter has produced several podcasts, covering topics of philosophy, law, crime, terrorism, and the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic.
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Benjamin Dichter is the founder of Possibly Correct Media, that publishes a podcast by the same name.
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In 2014, Benjamin Dichter ran for Toronto city council for Toronto Centre-Rosedale, winning approximately 1,500 out of 31,000 votes,.
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Benjamin Dichter's platform focused on budgets, infrastructure, transit, a desire to avoid partisanship politics, and a specific ambition to create affordable low-rise housing.
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Benjamin Dichter was the only candidate to not turn up for a climate change debate and likewise missed the debate on electoral reform.
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Benjamin Dichter won 5,478 votes, ranking third, behind winner Liberal Julie Dabrusin and runner up New Democratic Parity incumbent Craig Scott.
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Benjamin Dichter is the founder of LGBTory, the Rainbow Conservatives of Canada.
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In 2019, at a People's Party of Canada's first national convention, Benjamin Dichter did the opening keynote speech where he spoke about "political Islam" and how it has "infiltrated" the Liberal party and the Conservative party of Canada.
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Maxime Bernier thanked Benjamin Dichter for raising questions about how Canada dealt with Islamic extremism.
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Benjamin Dichter was listed, together with Tamara Lich, on the GoFundMe crowd-funding campaign.
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In February 2022, Benjamin Dichter agreed to move the funds into an escrow account.
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Benjamin Dichter described his general views that align with the convoy in testimony at the Public Order Emergency Commission in November 2022.
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Benjamin Dichter stated that he was vaccinated, but uncomfortable with mandates and ArriveCAN app and data tracking due to his work in trucking.
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Benjamin Dichter described his main message as spokesman was "peace, love, unity and freedom".
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Concerned with individuals and groups creating discord or promoting controversial messages in the protest, including James Bauder, Jeremy MacKenzie and Pat King and others, Benjamin Dichter recommended official messaging to separate from others.
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Benjamin Dichter has self-published the book Honking for Freedom: The Truckers Convoy that Gave us Hope that was co-written with former journalist John Goddard.
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Benjamin Dichter promotes use of Bitcoin, including during the Ottawa protest and afterwards, speaking about use of cryptocurrency to keep crowdsourced donations outside of government control.
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Benjamin Dichter has stated that the Liberal Party of Canada is "infested with Islamists".
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Benjamin Dichter has criticized Pride Toronto for banning police, describing it as having gone "full circle from being a civil rights cause to a celebration to a form of regressive left political weaponry".
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Benjamin Dichter is a regular pundit on Fox News and on 27 January 2022, he was a guest on Tucker Carlson's Fox News program.
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Benjamin Dichter spoke about his journey to Ottawa ahead of the Ottawa protests, and how Alberta looked like a "third-world country" due the trucking industry being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Benjamin Dichter has appeared on Russian state controlled media RT.
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Benjamin Dichter has a brother, who is a police officer.