Trudeau made the comments at a vigil on Jan. 29, organized to commemorate the one-year anniversary of a mass shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six men.

“We owe it to them to speak up and stand tall and explicitly against Islamophobia and discrimination in all its forms,” Trudeau told the vigil, which included several of those permanently wounded by the shooting, carried out in 2017 by Alexandre Bissonnette.

Bissonnette has yet to stand trial, and a motive has not been firmly established. Nevertheless, many in the Muslim community across the country have said the attack is merely the most extreme example of consistent Islamophobia that targets their community.

"We know who the racists are. They are the others, the bozos with dog paws on their T-shirt," Trudeau went on, referencing La Meute — French for “wolfpack.”

La Meute is a loose-knit group of anti-Islam activists founded by ex-members of the Canadian military. They boast a membership of some 40,000, although, as BuzzFeed Canada has reported, that number is wildly inflated.

The party has attracted a diverse membership, however, including one former Member of Parliament.