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Organizers of Saskatchewan’s yellow-vest movement feel ostracized by those they once viewed as fellow travellers, and they believe it’s due to what they call a “globalist” attempt to subvert democracy.

But the director of an anti-hate group said that’s another racist dogwhistle for a group steeped in anti-Semitism and committed to hating Muslims.

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Mark Friesen, a Saskatoon-based organizer of United Yellow Vests Canada, said he still thinks many yellow vesters are “on the same page” as a Regina rally that has asked its supporters to leave yellow vests at home.

He faulted the Regina Rally Against the Carbon Tax, which is coming to the Queensbury Convention Centre on Thursday, for playing into the “media and political narrative that yellow vests are racists.”

“It’s so frustrating to be, time and time again, labeled with this tag of racism and xenophobia and even violence,” said Friesen. “It’s just extremely frustrating because we’re not and it’s not what we believe in.”