Thread by @timethief

🧵 A few years ago, Canadians associated #conspiracytheories with harmless lunacy promoted by nutbars. Then the COVID19 pandemic brought them to the forefront during the so-called #FreedomConvoy and #OttawaOccupation.

From #QAnon , #SoldiersofOdin, #Diagolon, #YellowVests so-called Christians etc. passing as truckers while spouting hateful white nationalism, racism, Islamophobia rhetoic and backed financially by several American far-right groups, the craziness revealed was much closer to home

Ir was so close to home that the Interim CPC Leader Bergen, past CPC Leader Scheer and current CPC Leader Poilievre met with them. The latter even provided donuts and marched with the so-called protestors who plotted a coup of a duly elected govt.
drive.google.com/file/d/108Ikc_…

15 Surprising, Strange and Troubling Details Buried in the Emergencies Act Inquiry’s Final Report were exposed pressprogress.ca/15-surprising-…
And all the while the CPC distanced themselves from their obvious connectedness to the lunatic fringe.

In Canada today @CanadianPM Trudeau and President @vonderleyen drove progress on shared and urgent #CanadaEU priorities, including Ukraine, climate change, energy security and women’s economic empowerment. Read more: pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-r…

While the country was still reeling from CPC Leader @PierrePoilievre saying three members of his party MPs Leslyn Lewis, Dean Allison and Colin Carrie who met with a German politician from a far-right party will stay in caucus, he and other CPC MP`s chose not to be in the HoC.

1/2 A recent Abacus Data survey indicated that 44 per cent of the Canadian population, or 13 million Canadian adults, believe in at least one #conspiracytheory. These theories include #racistbeliefs that political elites ⬇️

2/2 are trying to replace native-born Canadians with immigrants who support them, or that the #WorldEconomicForum has a secret strategy to impose its economic plans across the globe. abacusdata.ca/conspiracy-the…

1/2 Evan Balgord, the executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, was one of more than a dozen experts who spoke at “Hate Among Us,” an international conference held in Ottawa . He estimates that there are now 10 to 15 per cent of Canadians who hold far right views, ⬇️

2/2 which encompass a wide range of extremist opinions including #antigovernment and #antiscience perspectives along with #racist and #homophobicbeliefs.
@antihateca

1/2 Canada’s #rightwingextremists include #whitenationalistgroups such as the #AryanGuard, #BloodandHonour, the #KuKlux lan, and #antiauthoritymovements such as the #FreemanontheLand group.

⬆️ Canada’s Right-Wing Extremists: Mapping their Ties, Location, and Ideas. This paper provides an important contribution to the study of RWEs in Canada by closely observing them over a two-month period before a critical #federalelection2019.
jhs.press.gonzaga.edu/articles/10.33…

Right Response: Right Wing Extremism in Canada
Government resources; Government Reports/Documents; Canadian Anti-Hate Laws and Freedom of Expression Legislation; Department of Justice; Public Safety sites.ontariotechu.ca/rightresponse/…

@MediaSmarts is a Canadian non-profit organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, that focuses on digital and media literacy programs and resources. For Online Hate resources see here mediasmarts.ca/digital-media-…

An Online Environmental Scan of Right-wing Extremism in Canada. We identified 6,660 right-wing extremist channels, pages, groups and accounts across 7 social media platforms for this report. isdglobal.org/wp-content/upl…

⬆️ Types of right-wing extremists in Canada- also also Figure 2 on page 11

The threat of right-wing extremism: policyoptions.irpp.org/fr/magazines/s…

The Resilience of Online Right-Wing Extremism in Canada. 20th July 2021. Here are the 7 things you need to know: isdglobal.org/digital_dispat…

1/2 Have #farrightradicals infiltrated Canada’s conservative parties? We’re about to find out. For years now, Canada’s #Conservatives have played footsie with an increasingly radicalized right-wing populist movement. ⬇️

2/3 So why, rather than distance themselves from that movement as it approached the nation’s capital, did so many leading Canadian Conservatives embrace it? ⬇️

3/3 And why, given what was already known about that movement’s leaders and their extremist views, did people like #Poilievre go out of their way to court them?
nationalobserver.com/2022/04/29/opi…