[Order Michael Finch’s new book, A Time to Stand: HERE. Prof. Jason Hill calls it “an aesthetic and political tour de force.”]
President Trump has announced his coming crackdown on the far-left, hateful, inciteful Antifa. What could that mean for the powerful Canadian lobby, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network et al, which is associated with the group?
Marco Rubio’s post further highlights the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance approach to far-left violence:
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) lobby in Canada says in its own words:
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a proudly independent and antifascist nonprofit organization.
Antifa is short for “Antifascist.” CAHN lists among its priorities the targeting of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, anti-2SLGBTQ+ movements, male supremacist movements and anti-gender movements.
A National Post report in 2022 revealed key points about the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s alliance with Antifa.
So what happens when America’s neighbor is engaged with the Antifa-linked CAHN? The group boasts Liberal government funding.
FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Our work is made possible in part thanks to grants from the Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program and the Community Resilience Fund.
Israel Now leader Meir Weinstein wrote:
The Anti-Hate Network has also received $25,000 from Mohamad Fakih, the owner of Paramount Fine Foods, who sparked an outcry, followed by demands to strip him of an Order of Canada award, when he stated: “Supporters of Israel ‘do not have basic human values, let alone Canadian values.’”
CAHN was co-founded and steered by Bernie Farber, who served as a member of the Trudeau government’s “expert” advisory group on online “safety.” Farber chaired CAHN from 2018 until 2023, and now serves as founding chair emeritus.
Illustrating just how determined Farber’s far-left group is, it published a booklet in 2022, entitled Confronting and Preventing Hate in Canadian Schools, which was supposed to be a toolkit against “online hate,” and was slated for government distribution all across Canada. In reality, it turned publicly funded schools into leftist indoctrination camps, with traditional values presented as “hate.” The booklet was a companion to the unprecedented Trudeau Liberal Internet censorship bill which sparked a strong backlash. Despite being presented as fighting “hate,” the new booklet instead fueled further hatred and division in Canada.
The 53-page propaganda booklet advanced “core values” of the far left. Some of them:
Farber has also called Christian evangelicals “Bible-thumping ultra-conservatives.”
The federally-subsidized Anti-Hate Network received a $268,400 grant to fund its guide, which also warned studentsto be wary of classmates who speak fondly of Donald Trump.
The group is still publishing articles including “REMIGRATION: HOW WHITE NATIONALISTS ARE REPACKAGING ETHNIC CLEANSING.”
Charlie Kirk gave his assessment of Canada and its former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nearly a year ago:
There are many outstanding questions that apply across the border. For instance, what does it mean now for the anti-Trump, Anti-Hate Network, which is linked to Antifa, that President Trump has announced that he will list Antifa as a “Terror Organization” after the murder of Charlie Kirk? Will its leaders be barred from entering the US? And how will the Canadian government’s funding of CAHN sit with the Trump administration?