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Unlike the French 'gilet jaune' protests in 2018 and 2019, the Yellow Vest Canada movement Canadian group incorporated xenophobic rhetoric in their messaging,[1][2][2]

to Vice News, Canadaland, the National Observer and the Canadian Anti-Hate Network Yellow Vests Canada was a far right and alt-right movement.

Starting in late 2018 after the France protests, the Canadian Yellow Vests groups began to gain popularity.

The Canadian group incorporates a xenophobic message,

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is against the federal Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act, and is pro-petrochemical-pipeline, but is primarily focused on anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti-semitic and white supremacist rhetoric.

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Beginning in late December 2018, various yellow-vest wearing protest movements have been seen across the country. This protest movement, known as Yellow Vests Canada, does not follow the same goals as the French movement.

Protests have had occasional outbreaks of violence.

Groups of various protesters wearing yellow vests have taken place in at least a 30 cities and towns across Canada as of January 2019.

An early yellow vest protest, which included "hundreds of vehicles", was held in Medicine Hat, Alberta,

organized by Tamara Lich

who was later arrested for organizing the 2022 convoy protest in Ottawa.

A controversial event in February 2019 known as the "United We Roll" truck convoy attracted several Yellow Vest participants to the grounds of Parliament Hill in Ottawa.

Prominent political officials such as federal Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer and People's Party leader Maxime Bernier addressed the crowd.

Scheer and Bernier drew criticism

for appearing at the United We Roll event when it was revealed that alt-right personality Faith Goldy, formerly of controversial Internet outlet Rebel Media, was also in attendance

and made a presentation to the participants, several of whom carried signs and chanted slogans accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of "treason"

and demanding that Canada withdraw from the non-binding United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (GCM).

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Conservative Senator David Tkachuk was also at the rally and was criticized for his remarks calling upon truck drivers to "roll over every Liberal left in the country".

Liberal Minister of Natural Resources Amarjeet Sohi and NDP MP Nathan Cullen were among the members of Parliament who expressed concern that the presence of mainstream political leaders at the rally was lending legitimacy to the movement.

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Anti-racism activist Evan Balgord, director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, condemned Scheer for his support of an organization whose members have repeatedly promulgated conspiracy theories and made death threats against Muslims, immigrants, members of Parliament, and Prime Minister Trudeau.

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A spokesperson for Scheer denied that the Conservative leader intended to lend support to racist and/or violent groups, telling columnist Martin Patriquin that "We can't control who shows up to these events."

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On 15 June 2019, a number of Yellow Vests Canada protesters joined groups protesting LGBT individuals at a Pride Festival in Hamilton, Ontario,

and several people were injured.**ref name="CBC20190620">Craggs, Samantha (20 June 2019). "City looks at how to ban yellow vests from 'a public space like no other'". CBC. Retrieved 2 July 2019.</ref>

According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), there is a direct link between the Yellow vests protesters in Canada and the 2022 Canada convoy protests, also known as the Freedom Convoy 2022.

Associates of the Yellow vest protests in Canada also organized the much smaller 2019 convoy "United We Roll" (UWR) convoy.

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Starting in 2018, Tamara Lich, attended Yellow vests events and promoted the movement as early as 2018, before becoming one of its organizers. Lich was the Freedom Convoy's main fundraiser and organizer.

    • ref name="CAHN_20220127"/> Pat King, who was another Freedom Convoy organizer, was also active in the Yellow vest protests, the Wexit separation movement, and United We Roll.[4]

CAHN said that Yellow vest Facebook groups posts contained "calls for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s arrest and execution" which was also a major theme of the Canada convoy protests.

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References

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  1. ^ "Yellow vests in Canada bear no resemblance to protesters in France: ambassador". Todayville Calgary. The Canadian Press. January 21, 2019. Retrieved March 10, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c Crosbie, David (28 January 2019). "The Far-Right Grassroots Movement Taking Over Canada". Canadaland. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  3. ^ Orr, Caroline (11 June 2019). "Hate groups mix with yellow vests on 'front line' of extremism in Canada". National Observer. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference CAHN_20220127 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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