One white supremacist in CAF ranks is too many

Whatever label is eventually bestowed upon them, none of the Proud Boy members should ever wear the uniform of the CAF.

In Canada, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has called for the Proud Boys, pictured in Washington, D.C., in 2020, to be listed as a terrorist organization. Flickr photograph by Geoff Livingston

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

January 18, 2021

OTTAWA—In his final media interview as Canada’s chief of the defence staff, General Jonathan Vance openly addressed the issue of white supremacists within the ranks of the Canadian Armed Forces. Specifically, Vance pointed to a July 2017 incident involving members of a right-wing, anti-immigrat...

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