The Canadian Nationalist Party is only a few dozen forms away from reaching official party status and getting money from the government

June 27, 2019

Canadian Anti-Hate Network

Travis Patron, leader of the neo-Nazi Canadian Nationalist Party. Source: Facebook.

The Canadian Nationalist Party is a neo-Nazi party led by Travis Patron, who recently released an anti-Jewish video about the “parasitic tribe” that calls for Jews to be “removed once and for all” from Canada. Another post on their Facebook page promises they have the cure to Jews.

Members of the Canadian Nationalist Party have been active in anti-Muslim and anti-LGBTQ+ demonstrations and were part of the attacks on Pride in Hamilton on June 15th, and part of an assault in Toronto on June 22nd.

The Canadian Nationalist Party has focused much of its hate recently on the LGBTQ+ community:

“A society that celebrates homosexuality is a society that will soon no longer exist. While our government aggressively promotes the Islamization of our country, they are simultaneously using public infrastructure to promote same-sex relations. This is ultimately destructive to our national identity and the long-term viability of our country.

The CNP will defund gay pride parades, remove crosswalks which are being used as a canvas to promote homosexuality, and take down every rainbow flag flying on public buildings.”

They are also explicitly anti-Muslim:

"Sharia law does not belong in Canada," Patron tells the CBC in a May interview, ". . . Muslims follow Sharia law and we do not support Sharia law . . . I haven't ever come across a Muslim that doesn't support Sharia law."

Patron has been holding small events around Canada to sign up members with venues like the University of Toronto and Legion halls often refusing to take, or cancelling, his bookings after being contacted by the Canadian Anti-Hate Network or, more often, by members of the community.

According to the Canada Elections Act, the party has to collect and submit 250 membership declarations. Elections Canada then mails each of those individuals to confirm their declarations

Patron tells the CBC in May that they have 300 members and, according to a June 15th video, Patron is only 37 confirmations away from reaching official party status.

If they become an officially recognized party, donors to the neo-Nazi party will get generous tax reimbursements. If one of their supporters donates $400, the government will reimburse them $300, for example. The government will be de facto funding a neo-Nazi party.

We are therefore calling on Chief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault and all elected parties to do everything in their power to prevent the neo-Nazi Canadian Nationalist Party from obtaining official status. We believe the Elections Act should be updated to disallow political parties that are fundamentally anti-democratic and anti-Constitutional similar to the system in Germany: Bundesverfassungsgericht - Proceedings For the Prohibition of Political Parties.

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has filed a criminal complaint with the RCMP of Redvers, Saskatchewan on the grounds that we believe that Patron has breached sections 318 (advocating genocide) and/or 319 (wilful promotion of hatred) of the Criminal Code. The text of our criminal complaint can be found below.

The CBC asked Patron about our criminal complaint, and he provided the following written response:

"In order for language to be criminally liable it must be made against an identifiable group," writes Patron. "Speech, such as that shown in the video mentioned, uses parables/parody and therefore it is not made against an identifiable group. The complaint has not met the threshold necessary for charges to be lain."

Patron also tells the CBC reporter that he's not referring to Jews, but to "globalists," a word that doesn't appear once in his video or the accompanying graphic, both of which refer to several common anti-Jewish tropes in identifying the "parasitic tribe." The term 'globalist' is itself commonly used as an anti-Jewish dog-whistle.

This screenshot from 2017 shows Travis Patron liking an anti-Jewish quote by American Nazi Party founder George Lincoln Rockwell on Facebook:

This wasn't a one-time occurrence:

Here Patron likes a call to murder Jagmeet Singh:

For context: "helicopter rides" refers to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's practice of having political dissidents murdered by being thrown out of helicopters.

Patron plans to run in the riding of Souris - Moose Mountain in Saskatchewan.

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