TORONTO, Feb. 14, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

  • Convoy organizer Glen Carritt says his group still “identifies with the yellow vests” and are welcoming them to the convoy. YVC organizer Tyler Malenfant calls it a Yellow Vests convoy on their main Facebook page.
  • The organizers of the convoy express support for anti-Muslim hate groups including Canadian Combat Coalition, Soldiers of Odin, and Worldwide Coalition Against Islam.
  • The rebrand from a Yellow Vests Convoy to ‘United We Roll’ is diverting attention from the overt racism and death threats that have come to characterize the Yellow Vests Canada movement. We, Yellow Vests Canada Exposed and Anti-Racist Canada have documented hundreds of examples.
  • The hate is mostly directed at Muslims, left-leaning individuals, government, media, and, occasionally, law enforcement. They share conspiracy theories such as: Muslims are behind the Fort McMurray wildfire so they could build a super-mosque. Oil and economic concerns are an issue, but not their primary concern.
  • The Yellow Vests movement has been entirely co-opted by the far-right including most extreme anti-Muslim groups in Canada. Their rallies are attended by neo-Nazis like Paul Fromm and Brian Ruhe. The first Toronto rally was held by Faith Goldy, a self-proclaimed propagandist for the alt-right neo-Nazi movement, who promotes the convoy on Twitter.
  • Tony Green, a YVC supporter, was arrested on January 28 th after allegedly pointing a firearm at an off-duty RCMP officer. They seized over 100 guns and explosive materials from his house.
  • Gregory McNeil, who made death threats towards law enforcement on the YVC page, was sentenced to over five years in prison after pulling a weapon on RCMP officers in 2010. The RCMP found a hidden room full of illegal weapons at his house.
  • Yellow Vests Canada represents a public safety threat, according to a briefing note authored by the Canadian Association for Security & Intelligence Studies – Vancouver.
  • For more, please see

             https://twitter.com/VestsCanada                            https://www.facebook.com/Yellow-Vests-Canada-...430992962/                            https://anti-racistcanada.blogspot.com/search?q=yellow+vests

             https://www.antihate.ca/yellow_vests_canada_m...of_weapons                            https://www.antihate.ca/factcheck_cbc_misrepr...th_threats                            https://casisvancouver.ca/1_19_fifth-generati...ocracy.pdf                            https://twitter.com/VestsCanada/status/1092931570359504899

This context is important. Thank you.

Media contact: Evan Balgord info@antihate.ca