An anti-hate advocacy group is filing a criminal complaint against white supremacist Kevin Goudreau of Peterborough, chair of the Canadian Nationalist Front, over a Facebook post which it says incites violence.

Richard Warman, lawyer and board member for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, says it wants to see police act on the post, which has been circulating around social media this week.

While the post appeared under his name and on his Facebook page, Goudreau denies writing it and says it and other Facebook posts discussing acts of violence are made up by others impersonating him online.

"Hypothetically, if you're going to do lone wolf actions, do it right," says the screen-captured post, before going into a list of groups to target.

The post goes on to provide advice on how to kill people using firearms.

Peterborough police stated this week that the service is investigating the posts and would not provide comment on the investigation.

While Goudreau says he was not the author of the post and online opponents are issuing a misinformation campaign against him, Warman says the white supremacist has a history of making comments online and then removing them.

"For at least the past six years he's been doing exactly this," he says. "It's standard for the neo-Nazis when they're caught doing something illegal."

Goudreau was the planner of an anti-immigration rally in Peterborough in September of 2017. While only a handful of protesters showed up, the demonstration was drowned out by hundreds of counterprotestors that day, though violence did erupt at the event.

Warman provided a previous criminal complaint, which listed a series of social media posts from 2012 containing death threats. Another complaint was filed with Durham Police Services in August of 2018, he says, in response to other "hate-motivated threats" made on social media.

In those prior instances no charges were pressed, he says.

The blog Anti-Racism Canada has shared a number of posts from Twitter and Facebook allegedly made by Goudreau. The posts appear to show Goudreau planning a rally on March 21 in Peterborough, talking about executing people, commenting on racial superiority and repeatedly mentioning a "hit list" of targets.

No record of these comments currently exists on Goudreau's Facebook page, and relatively few of his posts are publicly available.

Screen captures of these posts, which are alleged to belong to Goudreau, were shared with him and he says a number of them are made up by others.

Warman says Goudreau has a pattern where he posts something on social media that either directly makes a threat of violence or incites others to perform acts of violence. After that, Warman explains, the posts are deleted and Goudreau says the posts either never existed or his account was hacked.

In all cases where the posts are reported to police no charges have been made, he says, but this time he hopes charges are pressed.

That's because others online also make similar posts, and without any consequences for their actions they keep doing it, Warman says.

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Goudreau says he's the target of a campaign by Antifa, an anti-fascism movement, where people impersonate him online and make the inflammatory posts.

"I have been criminally harassed by the left for about 10 years specifically online, they make fake profiles, infiltrate my accounts and groups, repeatedly make fake cloned profiles of me making statements, screenshot the fake profile comments then delete the profile, they also hack accounts and do the same thing without people being aware," he says in an emailed response to questions.

Goudreau elaborated over the course of a half-dozen emails saying he is being targeted as revenge for his contributions to the conflict between white supremacists and Antifa.

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