Proud Boys at a gun rights rally on 1 May, 2021, in Salem, Oregon. (Getty/ Nathan Howard) The Canadian chapter of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys has dissolved itself, while insisting it was “never a white supremacy group”. In February this year, Proud Boys was officially designated a white supremacist terrorist group in Canada, for their “pivotal role” in the 6 January riots at the US capitol. In a statement posted to social media Sunday (2 May), the group said there is “officially no longer any Proud Boys in Canada”, according to It added: “The truth is we were never terrorists or a white supremacy group… We are electricians, carpenters, financial advisers, mechanics, etc.