In a non-binding motion, federal politicians are calling on Justin Trudeau to put the Proud Boys on the terror list. Experts say the move may have unintended consequences.
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It’s absurd to conflate support for Tories with white nationalism – but Liberals will try
The Trudeau government is investigating whether the extreme right-wing group the Proud Boys should be declared a terrorist organization. That is a legal decision. But there’s politics in it as well. The Liberals are trying to discomfit Erin O’Toole’s Conservatives by linking the party to extremists.
On the Proud Boys, “officials will be analyzing useful intelligence and evidence as that comes forward,” Mary-Liz Power, press secretary to Public Safety Minister Bill Blair, said in a statement on Sunday.
“When this work is completed, it will form the basis of the decision whether or not the Proud Boys or any other ideologically motivated violent extremist organization reaches the legal threshold for listing.”
Feds looking at declaring Proud Boys a terrorist organization in wake of U.S. rioting
“We’re very mindful of ideologically-motivated violent extremists, including groups like the Proud Boys. They are white supremacists, anti-Semitics, Islamophobic, misogynist groups. They’re all hateful, they’re all dangerous,” Blair said. “We’re working very diligently to ensure that where the evidence is available, where we have the intelligence, that we’ll deal appropriately with those organizations.”
The “Proud Boys” must be named a terrorist group, believes Jagmeet Singh
Wednesday’s events demonstrate that “it is more urgent than ever that the government immediately ban and dismantle all hate organizations operating in Canada,” because even though the seat of Congress was played out in the United States, “hate knows no borders, ”argued the leader of the NPD.
MUSLIM TERRORISTS posing as asylum seekers waiting in South America for green light from Biden to enter the U.S.
Next year’s now-broadly predicted surge of illegal immigration to the U.S. Southwest Border — largely the result of the Biden campaign’s months of messaging that the incoming president will clear all obstacles and penalties for it — will include not only Spanish-speakers – but Muslims from terrorism-supporting countries.