A notorious Metro Vancouver COVID-19 conspiracy theorist is in custody for repeatedly breaking mandatory quarantine after returning from a Flat Earth conference in the U.S. Mak Parhar is charged with three counts of breaking the Canada Quarantine Act, according to court records, and made his first appearance in court on Tuesday. New Westminster police say Parhar is being held at a regional corrections facility. According to his Facebook page, Parhar recently travelled to South Carolina for an event called Flatoberfest 2020 — a gathering of conspiracy theorists who believe the Earth is flat. Parhar made an appearance at a rally in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Sunday and bragged about breaking the mandatory 14-day self-isolation period upon his return to Canada. "I'm not going to put myself in prison, because I'm a free man with god-given rights," Parhar told a small gathering of COVID-19 conspiracy theorists in a video posted to YouTube. He claimed a border agent was "rattled" by his suggestion that the Quarantine Act doesn't apply to him, and said he told them he's not legally a "traveller" or a "person" under the law. "They're not used to people who aren't obedient little sheep," Parhar said in Sunday's speech. Parhar also spoke in Sunday's speech about police visiting his house on multiple occasions over the weekend to fine him for breaking quarantine, and mocked an officer who revealed a relative had recently died of COVID-19. "People don't die of COVID, because — you guys already know this — COVID doesn't exist," Parhar told his supporters.