A Manifestation of the weekend of Labor Day in the Niagara Region of Ontario for a self -described group “Canadian Men’s Nationalists” is causing concern about the increase in anti -immigrant feelings and the recruitment efforts of extremist groups.
Researchers studying extremism have compared the second children with White supremacist and neo -Nazis active clubs. These clubs join members for physical conditioning training, and some experts say that they are related to the training of what members believe that it is an upcoming racial war.
The leader of the second children, Jeremy Mackenzie, is also the founder of Diagolon, an “extremist organization of the militia”, According to the RCMP.
On August 31, Second Sons shared photos and videos on social networks that show about 50 people marching, singing and transporting flags through the Queenston Heights Park in Niagara-on-The-Lake, Ontario, during the day, before stopping and posing before the 56-meter high monument honoring the elderly. Sir Isaac Brock.
Most people in those images wear White matching masks and black t -shirts, with the words “all your children” and “the one who protects.” The videos show the park attendees who look at the groups from a distance.
“It’s a kind of intimidation,” said Saleh Waziruddin, executive member of the Niagara Region Association (Nrara).
Waziruddin, who is southern Asia, said he was not witnessing the demonstration, but that he has heard of people worried about the group and that others like this are gaining traction in the area.
“Part of their ideology is that people like me are not part of this family or that we are removing birth right of what they feel they are entitled as white people.”
On its website, Second Sons says that it is a “Canadian male nationalist club”, established in 2024 and committed to defending a way of life that states is under threat through political activism and physical training.
“Our birth right has been stolen from us as we are being expelled from society, academics and workforce, and replaced by foreigners without roots or connections with the Canadian people,” says the group.
The group had no permits, said Niagara Parks
Waziruddin said that the public demonstration and the march in the long weekend were the first in which he has heard in the region.
But the activities of the group in southern Ontario have recently been tracked, even by CBC News.
TO CBC visual research Recently, the second children and the active club nationalist-13-13 train in martial arts, gyms and parks in the area of Hamilton and Niagara.
“Canadian nationalism is not just ‘back’, it is inevitably inevitable,” said the second children on social networks after the weekend of Labor Day. “The spirit of resistant challenge is as Canadian as the Newfoundland cod, the cobbled stone streets of the old Quebec or the oil patch of the west or the largest general Isaac Brock.”
Brock, the homonym of the University in the nearby St. Catharines, was a commander and administrator of Canada Superior who died accusing the battle against the Americans in Queenston Heights during the war of 1812.
According to Niagara Parks, which manages the park and the monument, the second children did not have permission or permission to meet on August 31. Permits for special events and large groups are issued, he says on his website.
“After the review, our understanding is that the demonstration remained peaceful, and no incidents were reported,” said spokeswoman Katy Wassear in an email.
“We do not receive any complaint from the public. That said, the Niagara parks and the Niagara Parks Police Service do not approve the actions of the second children, nor the beliefs that the group represents.”
He added that the Niagara Parks Police Service works with the Niagara Regional Police Service to track and monitor protests to ensure that they are peaceful and legal.
In an email, Niagara-on-The-Lake spokeswoman, Marah Minor, said: “The city does not tolerate any form of racism, hate or discrimination.”
CBC Hamilton contacted Second Sons to comment, but did not receive an answer.
Shared group image of the ‘Active Club’ meeting in Caledonia
Waziruddin said that Second Sons is trying to be more visible and recruit new members. The day after the demonstration, the group published that he had received an “avalanche” of applications.
It is “worrying that there may be more and more people,” said Waziruddin.
According to Waziruddin, Second Sons is not only a group of social activities, but also part of a political movement.
With their white masks and matching attire, the members of the second children in Niagara-on-The Lake dressed in a similar way to the members of the American nationalist organization Patriot Patriot Front, which promotes the creation of a state only white in the United States, according to the extremism program at the George Washington University. A group member also mentioned the Patriot Front in a live broadcast after the demonstration.
Second Sons also uses the Red Ensign flag, popular among white supremacists, and on September 2, Mackenzie, the founder of the group, shared a video on the Telegram platform in which Nazi makes a greeting and smiles for the camera while driving and touches music. “Joan Jett entered, and mood came to me. What can I say?” He wrote in the publication.
CBC Hamilton asked Mackenzie to comment on that through the Second Sons website, but did not receive an answer before the publication.
A video of the Brock rally that Second Sons shared on Saturday shows that Mackenzie unmasked and spoke with the members. In Mackenzie’s speech, he is overwhelmed to Brock and regrets that Canada is being “looted, raped and burned.” At one point, the video goes to a group of men, all of whom seem to be brown, walking in the park while Mackenzie accuses politicians of not knowing what a Canadian is really.
In addition to the videos of Queenston Heights, Second Sons shared an image of Mackenzie and a group of masked members standing together behind some type of fighting ring.
The CBC Visual Research Unit identified the photo configuration as the Lions Community Center of Caledonia in Caledonia, Ontario. CBC Hamilton contacted the Lions Club, who said he was not aware of the group that rented the hall last weekend was affiliated with Second Sons.
“If the true nature or group association would have revealed, the rent would not have been approved. We are disappointed that the purpose of the reserve was misrepresented and we want to make it clear that we do not support or approve the promotion of extremist opinions,” said Caledonia Lions Club in an email.
The Second Sons website says that the physical approach is to ensure that the members are the best possible versions of themselves, and that hiding the identities of the members is to preserve privacy and protect the members of the remuneration of “state officials or their attack dogs.”
The teacher cares for the hatred of becoming the mainstream
Waziruddin said anti -immigrant feelings are often fed by false information and can lead to real and negative impacts for many people.
He said that the idea that immigrants, temporary foreign workers and students are taking jobs from Canadians seems have entered conventional thinking and contributed to policy changes, such as Limits for international students In Ontario postsecundarias schools and proposed changes to the Program of Foreign Temporary Workers of Canada.
AMEIL Joseph, a professor associated at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the McMaster University, said that policy changes such as that may have negative repercussions on people involved and contribute to greater anti -immigrant feeling, especially when those narratives are not questioned.
Canadians can watch Mackenzie’s videos and see him criticize immigration in a way that may seem similar to some politicians who debate politics, Joseph said.
“And then [people] See a video of Tiktok with someone complaining about someone in southern Asia who works at Tim Hortons, “Joseph said in an interview.” Everything bleeds without the backdrop of all that tells the continuous history of these white nationalist groups that have been trying to organize for generations. ”
Seeing images of the rally, Joseph said he thought about how much he has changed from the public uproar when White supremacists marched on Charlottesville, Va. Comparatively, he said, Niagara-on-The-Lake rally seems to have left people without falsifying, perhaps because they are accustomed to seeing such groups in light.
The Choice of Second Sons of a backdrop for its rally in Niagara was designed to invoke the idea that Canadians join against “invaders,” Joseph said, and appeal to patriotism as a way of attracting recruits.
“It seems they are successful,” he said. “It’s absolutely scary.”
In the Hamilton area, Joseph said, community groups have joined to counteract extreme right groups and coordinate responses to their actions. He said he would like to see more of that, along with more investment from local governments to help in those efforts.
