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So will the convoy organizers, some of whom espouse far-right, extremist views, they said.
Participants said their movement was largely in opposition to the country’s COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates. Organizers and frontmen included Pat King, who has been on the radar of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network for some time. He’s also seen in a video posted to Twitter in 2019 saying there is an “endgame” to “depopulate the Anglo-Saxon race.”
Dichter made an appearance on the popular Fox News show, “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Jan. 27, and King became a kind of celebrity during the convoy demonstration, with protestors stopping to high five him and take selfies, Amarasingam said. King also appeared on Fox News’s business channel, Fox Business, as a “co-founder” of the convoy.
Phillips is the founder of the Anti-Racist Canada website, where he tracked Canadian far-right movements for over a decade. He said he hopes the involvement and amplification of far-right influencers in the convoy protests serves as a wake-up call for the country to start taking the politics of these people seriously.