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In late December, he posted to a call-to-action video featuring the logo of a known far-right hate group, one that the Canada Border Services Agency once warned was willing to use violence in service of its aims.

They say it is about truckers, and have raised over $6 million dollars on GoFundMe. But if you look at its organizers and promoters, you’ll find Islamophobia, antisemitism, racism, and incitements to violence.

Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson has taken to YouTube to praise the truckers who have been protesting in Ottawa for more than three weeks.

The “Freedom Convoy” is a “nationwide insurrection,” the chair of Ottawa’s police board said.

Protestors have let off fireworks, blocked roads, and desecrated a war memorial.

Protests have erupted in other Canadian cities, too, including Toronto and Hamilton.

“I suspect, I fear, someone who is looking at the election that is coming up in a few months, perhaps contemplating a bid for the leadership of the federal Conservative party … is now coddling that anti-vaxxer fringe, that extremist fringe that I’m sad to say we have on display in Ottawa,” Del Duca added.

“He is trying to cobble together a very dangerous coalition.”

A yes vote would not mean automatic independence.

Last week, Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre claimed he’d never heard of the “potentially dangerous” Diagolon during an interview with a reporter from Sudbury.com. After the reporter explained what the group was, Poilievre blamed “NDP Liberal extremists” for “trying to convince the people that they’re wrong,” whatever that means.