The white, male pity party springs from the heartland

Canadian complacency—and denial—about the strength and sophistication of homegrown, white-centric, domestic extremism has cost us big time.

A Freedom Convoy supporter, holding up a QAnon sign, pictured Feb. 12, 2022, and blocking traffic on Kent Street. The Ottawa Occupation and border blockades provided fertile recruiting grounds for white supremacist organizations, writes Dan Stanton. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAN STANTON

February 28, 2022

OTTAWA—It is easy to dismiss the Ottawa Occupation and border blockades as an anti-vaxxer clown show. Or a radicalization buffet for working-class pretenders marching against Canadian elitism, dressed in the sartorial splendour of hoser chic, fuelled by pig roasts, legalized pot, and foreign demag...

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