Uneasy Alliances: A Look at the Right-Wing Extremist Movement in Canada |
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Authors: | Barbara Perry Ryan Scrivens |
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Affiliation: | 1. Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, ON, Canada;2. School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada |
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Abstract: | Despite the Canadian Security Intelligence Service's recent concern with the growing threat from right-wing extremists nationwide, we have little contemporary scholarship on the far right movement in Canada and fewer attempts to systematically analyze their ideologies and activities. Drawing on a three-year study involving interviews with Canadian law enforcement officials, community organizations, and right-wing activists, as well as analyses of open source intelligence, this article examines the endogenous factors that facilitate and inhibit the right-wing extremist movement in Canada. Findings suggest that strengths and weaknesses of the groups themselves can be exploited as a means of debilitating them. |
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