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If you ve ve followed Canadian politics for the last two and a half years, you know about a group called Diagalon. It s a neo-fascist militia with a sizable support base across the country, and a military training base with members who have military training. But what even is diagalon?

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00:00:00.000 what is the canadian anti-hate network and who are the people that make up this anti-hate network
00:00:11.760 and to what extent did the federal government rely on open source intelligence coordinated
00:00:17.440 and sourced by this canadian anti-hate network to justify suspending the rights of 40 million
00:00:23.760 canadians to decide that protesting the government was going to be illegal
00:00:28.080 and that donating to a political cause was grounds to have your bank account frozen
00:00:32.720 thousands of documents obtained by journalist karima sad through a freedom of information request
00:00:38.240 relating to jeremy mckenzie a canadian podcaster and what can only really be described as his
00:00:44.160 fan club diagalon seriously call into question the intelligence that the federal government was
00:00:50.080 relying upon in those mid-february days of 2022 when they were deciding whether or not to invoke
00:00:56.720 the emergencies act the single largest suspension of rights ever seen in canada
00:01:01.840 since pierre trudeau invoked the war measures act in 1970 they're calling it hate gate and the
00:01:07.440 journalists who wrote this story believe that the federal government's reliance on this canadian
00:01:11.920 anti-hate network open source intelligence and legacy media's reporting of that intelligence
00:01:18.240 amounts to an embarrassing intelligence failure and whatever you think of the people involved in
00:01:23.360 the story or the journalists who wrote the story this is undeniably a story worth telling not least
00:01:29.120 because the legacy media has refused to touch it and you'll soon see why drop a like in the video
00:01:35.440 help us out with subscribing to the true north youtube channel and the common question for the episode is
00:01:40.240 this is hate gate the single worst intelligence failure in canadian history let me know in the comments
00:01:47.520 and let's get into it if you've followed canadian politics for the last two and a half years you know
00:01:53.440 about a group called diagalon that's because legacy media journalists the ones that justin trudeau
00:01:59.360 likes to shovel cash to have routinely wrote about diagalon citing experts from canadian anti-hate
00:02:06.320 network sources who claim diagalon are an ideologically motivated violent extremist organization
00:02:13.280 a dangerous group sometimes they even like to use the word accelerationist to describe diagalon but
00:02:19.760 what even is diagalon anyways even calling it a group based on what we know now from karima sad's
00:02:25.680 reporting seems ridiculous it seems to be more of a fan club for jeremy mckenzie diagalon however does
00:02:32.160 have an identifiable symbol a flag a black flag with a white diagonal line across it representing a
00:02:38.720 fictitious meme country formed of western canadian provinces and southern states in the usa the vice
00:02:45.920 president alongside jeremy mckenzie of diagalon is a goat figurine with a coke addiction but if you were
00:02:53.840 to read legacy media reporting especially at the height of the freedom convoy you would be led to
00:02:59.040 believe that jeremy mckenzie's group diagalon is a dangerous militant organization hellbent on
00:03:05.280 overthrowing the federal government when a diagalon patch was found on a bulletproof vest as part of
00:03:11.360 a large seizure of weapons at the coots border blockade global news citing the canadian anti-hate
00:03:17.200 network wrote this report in which anti-hate network experts label diagalon as a neo-nazi group
00:03:25.200 a neo-fascist militia with a sizable support base across the country and with members who have military
00:03:31.680 training but thanks to actual hate gate reporting this is how actual canadian intelligence officials
00:03:38.160 were quoting diagalon in their internal communications as the rcmp wrote about diagalon
00:03:44.160 diagalon does not pose a criminal or national security threat in a july 2021 email exchange on
00:03:51.120 diagalon canadian officials write this there are not accelerationist there's no incitement of violence
00:03:58.320 and no criminality amongst the group in march 2022 a canadian national security official is quoted
00:04:04.720 as saying this diagalon does not meet dictionary definitions of a group the following month another
00:04:11.440 national security official writes this we do not consider it a right-wing militia group at this time
00:04:18.400 the following month after that in may another official writes this diagalon as a distinct entity
00:04:25.760 does not pose a criminal or national security threat at this time and perhaps the most important
00:04:30.960 piece of information found by the journalist who wrote the hate gate piece is found in the rcmp's
00:04:36.560 diagalon profile in 2022 they write this the canadian anti-hate network is cited as the main authority
00:04:44.160 on the group by all mainstream media outlets due to the fact that all information traces back to one source
00:04:51.280 triangulation and the verification of facts is almost impossible at the current time based on
00:04:56.480 the information that is publicly available it is difficult to understand how canadian anti-hate
00:05:01.360 network can confidently assert that diagalon is an accelerationist movement that believes a
00:05:06.480 revolution is inevitable and necessary to collapse the current government system so as far back as 2021
00:05:13.120 canadian government officials have been quoted as saying that diagalon is not inciting violence not
00:05:19.040 accelerationist and not criminal but the intelligence breakdown over diagalon as uncovered in hate gate
00:05:24.880 goes much deeper this all brings us to the february 16 infamous marco mendicino press conference where
00:05:31.280 he says that the men arrested in coots have quote strong ties to a far-right group whose leaders are in
00:05:38.080 ottawa when pressed by journalists to explain further about this far-right group with leadership in ottawa during
00:05:44.160 the freedom convoy mendicino had no answers at all but instead directed all media requests to the rcmp we
00:05:51.200 need to be clear-eyed about the seriousness of these incidents indeed several of the individuals at coots
00:05:57.520 have strong ties to a far-right extreme organization with leaders who are in ottawa
00:06:03.600 we're talking about a group that is organized agile knowledgeable and driven by an extremist ideology
00:06:14.080 where might makes right and this is completely contrary to our democratic values uncovered in hate
00:06:22.000 gate is a string of emails from government officials trying to figure out how to respond to this request
00:06:27.520 given that of course the federal government had no information about a far-right group whose leadership
00:06:33.200 was in ottawa eventually one government official decides that a global news article about the coots
00:06:38.800 blockade and diagonal the same one that i sourced at the beginning of the show quoting diagonal as a
00:06:45.120 neo-nazi group and a neo-fascist militia would be enough to provide government officials with the
00:06:51.440 information required to assist other media requests that global news article conveniently sources one
00:06:58.640 expert that expert is from the canadian anti-hate network two days before all of that the federal
00:07:04.240 government invoked the emergencies act on the freedom convoy and before justin trudeau invoked
00:07:09.280 the emergencies act that afternoon trudeau's national security advisor demanded a briefing on
00:07:15.360 ideologically motivated violent extremist groups involved in the protest an rcmp official is tasked with
00:07:21.760 compiling a full intelligence briefing within 15 minutes to provide to trudeau's national security
00:07:28.240 advisor before the invocation of the emergencies act 15 minutes as the journalists who wrote the
00:07:34.560 hategate report accurately in my opinion state the pressure to expedite such a significant assessment
00:07:39.840 one intended to inform senior government decision making is counterproductive it virtually guarantees
00:07:45.120 there is no time to review updates or fact check new information in order to produce this intelligence
00:07:50.560 briefing the rcmp were forced to rely on the same old erroneous content source through the broken
00:07:56.080 telephone chain of broadcast media from a single apparatus pumping out inaccurate and alarmist
00:08:01.760 statements to maintain a foothold in the highly lucrative competitive market of hate group expertise
00:08:07.760 and at this point during the freedom convoy despite the rcmp and the government not having the actual
00:08:13.200 intelligence to back up these statements federal politicians and the media using anti-hate network
00:08:19.040 sources have run with the line that this group is a dangerous violent extremist organization running
00:08:26.400 the freedom convoy canada's now attorney general arif verani during the freedom convoy said in the house
00:08:33.040 of commons that diagalon was a far-right group actively involved with arming themselves and carrying
00:08:39.120 ammunition and body armor to blockade the border when far-right elements including a group called
00:08:44.400 diagalon is actively involved with arming themselves carrying ammunition and body armor to blockade
00:08:50.160 the border at coots and that results in four arrests for conspiracy to commit murder and the
00:08:54.320 investigations are ongoing as to whether that group has links to groups raising swastikas and
00:08:58.480 confederate flags here in ottawa and the blockade in ottawa continues i think we do have an ongoing
00:09:02.960 threat that needs to be resolved liberal mp ryan turnbull also said the same thing but this time
00:09:08.320 described diagalon as a political and ideological extremist group willing to use lethal force to
00:09:15.600 carry out their agenda these individuals who are part of an extremist group called diagalon have a
00:09:22.480 political and ideological motivation and we're willing to use lethal force to carry out their agenda
00:09:28.560 during the freedom convoy anti-hate network chairman bernie farber said that he had found an anti-semitic
00:09:35.040 flyer in ottawa during the protest in reality that flyer was nowhere near ottawa and it was from a
00:09:40.960 protest in florida where bernie farber had carelessly attributed it to being in ottawa of course legacy
00:09:48.800 media also ran with that story on anti-hate network's advisory board sits a woman named barbara perry 0.98
00:09:55.760 barbara perry is a professor at the ontario tech university's center on hate bias and extremism this
00:10:03.200 ontario tech university bias hate and extremism center produced a list of 300 active far-right
00:10:11.840 organizations in canada this list of 300 far-right organizations has been cited by the liberal
00:10:18.000 government to justify new anti-hate legislation despite attempts from true north to get access to
00:10:24.080 the list of 300 organizations used by the government the ontario tech university is hiding behind
00:10:30.640 exemptions to the freedom of information request to not provide us with the information and one of
00:10:36.240 the founding board members of the canadian anti-hate network amira el gawabi was recently
00:10:41.600 appointed by justin trudeau to be canada's first special representative on combating islamophobia
00:10:48.480 oh and if that wasn't enough last year in june the canadian government teamed up with the anti-hate
00:10:53.760 network to release what it calls an anti-hate toolkit for schools the government has labeled this toolkit
00:11:00.480 confronting and preventing hate in canadian schools and this project is being funded by the
00:11:06.400 government of canada's anti-racism action program and up until march of 2022 the canadian anti-hate
00:11:12.720 network was being paid with our tax money as part of what the government calls an anti-racism action
00:11:18.640 program they were receiving grants to write hit pieces on people the government deems to be
00:11:23.680 political opposition to say that the canadian anti-hate network doesn't have tremendous influence
00:11:29.040 over the federal government would be ridiculous not only does this organization receive funding and
00:11:34.480 grants with our tax money to achieve anti-hate and anti-racism outcomes which are of course
00:11:40.960 ideological and political in nature but even officials within the anti-hate network end up
00:11:46.480 working for the government and being given big government positions like amira el gawabi at the
00:11:51.920 heart of hate gate is a question as to whether or not the intelligence apparatus in this country
00:11:56.640 has been ideologically captured or if they're just incredibly incompetent are canadian intelligence
00:12:02.480 officers just lazy and incompetent or are they driven by ideological motivation the anti-hate network
00:12:08.640 which is funded with our money is an activist organization a blog which labels any conservative
00:12:14.560 organization that opposes the prime minister and the stated aims of the federal government as far right
00:12:20.320 and dangerous nobody should be taking the anti-hate network seriously and the fact that the federal
00:12:25.440 government may have relied on anti-hate network open source intelligence to justify invoking the
00:12:31.680 emergencies act is simply outrageous a serious country has a serious intelligence apparatus an
00:12:38.160 intelligence apparatus that doesn't rely on legacy media reporting and open source intelligence from
00:12:43.760 an anti-hate network but actual due diligence real hard work but let's be honest it's been quite a long
00:12:50.320 time since anyone has accused canada of being a serious country so is anyone really that surprised
00:12:56.320 all right everyone that's gonna do it for us today on the show thank you so much for tuning in
00:12:59.520 reminder let me know your answer to the comment question is hate gate the single worst intelligence
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