Greg Wycliffe - Bernie Farber from Canadian Anti-Hate Network wants gun ownership to be dependent on your politics

The Canadian Anti-Hate Network supports Bill C-71 and measures to strengthen the bill to prevent access to firearms by members of hate groups which espouse racism and violence in Canada. They collaborate with academics who do the legwork to justify their absurd claims. For example, one academic claimed there are over 300 far-right extremist groups in Canada, then refused to provide a list.

00:00:00.000 We support Bill C-71 and measures to strengthen the bill to prevent access to firearms by members of hate groups which espouse racism and violence.

00:00:09.600 We now have over 300 active hate groups in Canada.

00:00:13.840 This is Bernie Farber, the former chair of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.

00:00:17.780 They collaborate with academics who do the legwork to justify their absurd claims.

00:00:22.380 For example, one academic claimed there are over 300 far-right extremist groups in Canada, then refused to provide the list or even the methodology of how they came up with this list.

00:00:35.640 Am I on the list? Is a Facebook group that I'm a part of part of the list? We don't know.

00:00:41.220 We now have over 300 active hate groups in Canada.

00:00:45.600 300 active groups.

00:00:47.360 300 active groups.

00:00:48.840 At Cannes, we recommend that Bill C-71 be amended to add criteria to prevent individuals from receiving firearms licenses if they associate with extremist hate groups and therefore pose a serious risk to themselves and to others.

00:01:05.320 Further, we support measures which make it possible in the interest of public safety for the chief firearms officer to take weapons out of the hands of individuals espousing overt racism and support for violence.

00:01:19.960 Anti-Semitism, conspiracy, minimization and distortion, Holocaust denial, go hand-in-hand with far-right conspiracy and mass murder.

00:01:31.240 COVID conspiracy theories, the Great Replacement conspiracy theories, they kill. They kill.

00:01:37.980 And so we need to find law that works and that will root it out, in my view, right at its very core.

00:01:45.500 From the point of view of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, we just really want to make it as difficult as possible for those who are involved in promoting hatred to have access to guns.

00:01:57.540 And anything that puts those kinds of blockages in their way, I think, would be more than helpful.

00:02:02.460 If you can find this footprint and determine that these people are involved in hateful activities, in promoting hatred, in gathering information that could lead to hateful activity, and they apply for a license for guns, potentially and possibly something could have been done.

00:02:21.720 If we can put obstacles in the way of those who hate, those who have been very obvious about their hatred because they've left this footprint online, we might be able to do something to stop it.

00:02:34.520 What your organization is proposing is indeed quite radical.

00:02:38.280 And if I have understood you correctly, you seem to be suggesting that if someone associates with hate groups or espouses hate, that they should be subject to legal sanctions before they are even found guilty in a court of law.

00:02:53.680 Let's sanction them right now because we think you are a hateful person.

00:02:58.220 You have the wrong haircut, and that looks to us like you're a violent person.

00:03:02.360 Am I understanding that correctly?

00:03:03.920 Have you considered the constitutional impact on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms?

Greg Wycliffe - November 20, 2024

Bernie Farber from Canadian Anti-Hate Network wants gun ownership to be dependent on your politics

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