Updated 7:01 PM ET, Wed February 3, 2021
Members of the Proud Boys march during a protest on December 12, 2020, in Washington, DC.
Ottawa, Canada (CNN)Canada announced Wednesday that the Proud Boys will be designated as a terrorist entity along with 12 other groups.
The Proud Boys will be deemed an ideologically motivated violent extremist group along with three others: Atomwaffen Division, The Base and Russian Imperial Movement, the government said in a news release. Their violent actions and rhetoric are fueled by white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and misogyny, and unfortunately, often in combination of all of the above, said Public Safety Minister Bill Blair at a news conference Wednesday.
Canada designates Proud Boys as terrorist group
Amanda Coletta, The Washington Post
Feb. 3, 2021
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Proud Boys rally in Washington on Dec. 12, 2020.Photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein
TORONTO - Canada on Wednesday declared the Proud Boys a terrorist entity, adding the far-right group to a list that includes al-Qaida, ISIS and al-Shabab in an effort to crack down on ideologically motivated violent extremism, described by the country s public safety minister as the most significant threat to domestic security.
The announcement by Public Safety Minister Bill Blair came less than a month after Proud Boys allegedly joined the violent mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol after attending a rally by then-President Donald Trump in the hope of overturning the presidential election. Five people, including a Capitol Police officer, died in that attack.
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Trump s malignant populism has turned far-right violence into a domestic terrorism threat by Enzo DiMatteo on January 28th, 2021 at 7:00 PM 1 of 4 2 of 4
For Canadians, there has been much to unpack after four years of Donald Trump. And while we fancy ourselves above the darker forces of racism, nativism, fear, and demonization (not to mention misogyny) that have been unleashed under Trump, our proximity to our neighbour to the south and a porous social media has made us particularly vulnerable to the spread of right-wing extremism of the kind witnessed during the attack on the Capitol on January 6.
While conservative columnists dismiss the idea it could ever get to the same point here, the anti-state and anti-government sentiments expressed by those who took part have already infected the mainstream in Canada. On the same day as armed protestors attacked the Capitol, in Toronto a motorcade of supporters waving Trump 2020 and Stop The Steal flags drove from Queen’s Park t