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It’s one thing to click the like button on Facebook, but quite another to show up in person for a Canada-first, anti-immigration rally on Parliament Hill.

The Mounties and Hill security didn’t need to set up all the extra barriers on Saturday because only 100 people showed up, or about 900 fewer than organizers had expected.

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It would have been easy for Dan Dubois to blame the lousy turnout on the 31 C heat, but he didn’t.

“I’m disappointed. The response on social media seemed bigger,” said Dubois, the 58-year-old national president of the Canadian Combat Coalition, or C3 as the self-described Canadian patriots call it. “I was expecting 1,000. Canadians are complacent. No wonder Canada is going down the tubes.”

Dubois, standing on a platform made of three wooden skids as he addressed the small anti-immigration, anti-Justin Trudeau crowd, said it was the most “multicultural bunch of racists I’ve ever seen.”