Canadian League of Rights

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The right-wing Canadian League of Rights (CLR) (German: Canadian League of Rights ) was the Canadian branch of Eric Butler's Australian League of Rights . After touring Canada in the mid-1960s, Butler decided to create a Canadian version of his Australian party, which happened in 1968.

The CLR has been run by Ron Gostick and Patrick Walsh for most of its existence . Like the organizations associated with it, it adhered to the theory of social credit and was anti-Semitic . Author Stanley Barrett estimated that the CLR had about 10,000 members at their wedding. The CLR was named one of the largest and best organized anti-Semitic organizations in Canada in 1987. A well-known member was the Canadian Jim Keegstra .

The CLR wanted to connect with various groups such as the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada and distributed books that deny the Holocaust .

The CLR was a member of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights , founded in 1972 , an umbrella organization for the rights of the British Commonwealth , founded by Butler, in which the Australian League of Rights , British League of Rights and New Zealand League of Rights were also members. The CLR hosted the second conference of the Crown Commonwealth League of Rights in Canada in 1983 and in 1991 they intended to accompany Holocaust denier David Irving on an event tour in Canada.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Spoonley: The Politics of Nostalgia: racism and the extreme right in New Zealand . P. 210, The Dunmore Press 1987 (English)
  2. ↑ sociology.uoguelph.ca ( memento of the original from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Stanley Barrett: Is God a Racist? The Right Wing in Canada , accessed April 3, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sociology.uoguelph.ca
  3. ↑ hartford-hwp.com : David Lethbridge: Jew-haters and red-baiters: The Canadian League of Rights , accessed April 3, 2011
  4. ^ Paul Spoonley: The Politics of Nostalgia . P. 102