Since 2023, Canada has had the misfortune of having to host fascist politician Christine Anderson, Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the far-right German party Alternativ fur Deutscheland, who is widely regarded as one of the most pro-Russian sitting MEPs in all of Europe. This is a politician who has refused to support naming Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, and demanded in the past that Germany withdraw sanctions on the Russian Federation and pull out of NATO. According to VoteWatch.eu, Anderson had one of the most pro-Russian voting records out of sitting MEPs from 2019-2023.
List of pro-Russian MEPs based on voting record.
Anderson places 9th overall and third in her party, behind Maximillian Krah, a man whose own staffers have faced investigations for their ties to foreign intelligence, including a man charged with spying for China. Krah himself has faced considerable controversy over his pro-Nazi statements, has been raided over alleged payments from Russian influence operations, and is known to associate with known Russian influence agent Yuri Kofner. Anderson, having written the letter suggesting that Krah's expulsion was due to his "personality structure" and a last-ditch, "desperate" move, seems overtly dismissive of the gravity of Krah's sympathies but willing to acquiesce to the necessity of a short-lived expulsion. A slap on the wrist that has since seen them at the forefront of party organising, with Anderson's approval.
That is the kind of person Christine Anderson is.
But it gets worse.
Anderson is now planning to launch another speaking tour in Western Canada, drawing from anti-vaxxers, Wexiteers, 2022 Convoy supporters and anti-LGBTQ2S campaigners. In other words, activists for causes that are known to be promoted as significant themes in Russian information operations, with the intent of Balkanising and destabilising Canadian society. However, her promoter, Trinity Productions, is run by a woman named Stacey Kauder, who claims to be of Polish and Jewish descent. Now personally, I find this extremely interesting as Kauder's partner in crime is Bethan Nodwell, an antisemitic podcaster and 2022 Convoy activist who has in the past appeared on the podcast of Christopher Polhaus of the neo-Nazi organisation Blood Tribe.
It's hard to believe Stacey Kauder has any trouble with that though, seeing as both her and Anderson were willing to do a salute with the neo-Nazi paramilitary network Diagolon.
It's even harder to believe she cares given her habit of frequently relativizing the Holocaust. This is a rather important point to bring up not least because one of the common participants of the tour was Vera Sharav, the childhood Holocaust survivor who has shamefully taken to comparing COVID-19 vaccines to the application of Zyklon-B during the Holocaust, minimising the weight of the Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews worldwide. To Kauder, Chrystia Freeland is the next incarnation of Adolf Hitler, and farm expropriation for urbanisation is just like Nazi Germany.
However, what has really slipped under the radar for most has been Kauder's turn towards explicit Russophilia and a desire to see Russia invade both Canada and Ukraine. These are far more extreme foreign policy positions than what Anderson has been publicly able to afford to take, but it offers an insight into Anderson's real position through her "promoter and manager," which themselves don't appear to be too far off from Anderson's even more extreme colleagues.
Kauder has even previously hosted at least one event featuring Matthew Ehret, the leading activist of the LaRouche Movement in Canada. Ehret has previously been recognised by the State Department of the United States of acting as a Russian asset of the SVR intelligence service, through his works published to the Strategic Culture website. The LaRouche movement is extremely antisemetic and strongly connected to Russian intelligence officer and literal Nazi-Communist Sergei Glazyev, former leader of Rodina, a satellite party of Putin's United Russia with known strong ties to Russian intelligence services. Glazyev has consistently served as an advisor to the Russian government in some capacity or another for decades.
In fact, it seems quite like Kauder just has a general disdain for the concept of Canadian sovereignty, being more than willing to lend credence to the slander that Canadians are producing large amounts of fentanyl and not simply smuggling it over the US border, but around the world. Kauder herself has frequently commented that she wishes for the United States to invade us, as well. These are not tongue-in-cheek jokes, they are the genuine expressions of a radical racist who would sacrifice a generation of young Canadians to satisfy her fascist impulses for violence and mayhem.
Of course, Kauder only really seems to have issues when the "Nazis" in question are supposedly Ukrainian, repeating the same canard straight from the Kremlin's spin doctors. When faced with the reality that the Russian Federation is kidnapping Ukrainian children, Kauder only responds with the same eliminationist propaganda lines used to justify the genocide.
That is the kind of person Christine Anderson is.
But it gets worse.
Anderson is now planning to launch another speaking tour in Western Canada, drawing from anti-vaxxers, Wexiteers, 2022 Convoy supporters and anti-LGBTQ2S campaigners. In other words, activists for causes that are known to be promoted as significant themes in Russian information operations, with the intent of Balkanising and destabilising Canadian society. However, her promoter, Trinity Productions, is run by a woman named Stacey Kauder, who claims to be of Polish and Jewish descent. Now personally, I find this extremely interesting as Kauder's partner in crime is Bethan Nodwell, an antisemitic podcaster and 2022 Convoy activist who has in the past appeared on the podcast of Christopher Polhaus of the neo-Nazi organisation Blood Tribe.
It's hard to believe Stacey Kauder has any trouble with that though, seeing as both her and Anderson were willing to do a salute with the neo-Nazi paramilitary network Diagolon.
Stacey Kauder, left, doing a salute for Diagolon alongside Anderson, centre, and Diagolon figurehead and neo-Nazi Derek Harrison, right.
It's even harder to believe she cares given her habit of frequently relativizing the Holocaust. This is a rather important point to bring up not least because one of the common participants of the tour was Vera Sharav, the childhood Holocaust survivor who has shamefully taken to comparing COVID-19 vaccines to the application of Zyklon-B during the Holocaust, minimising the weight of the Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews worldwide. To Kauder, Chrystia Freeland is the next incarnation of Adolf Hitler, and farm expropriation for urbanisation is just like Nazi Germany.
Declaring Canada the "Fourth Reich" certainly is a choice. It is deliberate Holocaust minimisation that goes largely unnoticed by the German public in part because of the language barrier.
However, what has really slipped under the radar for most has been Kauder's turn towards explicit Russophilia and a desire to see Russia invade both Canada and Ukraine. These are far more extreme foreign policy positions than what Anderson has been publicly able to afford to take, but it offers an insight into Anderson's real position through her "promoter and manager," which themselves don't appear to be too far off from Anderson's even more extreme colleagues.
Kauder has even previously hosted at least one event featuring Matthew Ehret, the leading activist of the LaRouche Movement in Canada. Ehret has previously been recognised by the State Department of the United States of acting as a Russian asset of the SVR intelligence service, through his works published to the Strategic Culture website. The LaRouche movement is extremely antisemetic and strongly connected to Russian intelligence officer and literal Nazi-Communist Sergei Glazyev, former leader of Rodina, a satellite party of Putin's United Russia with known strong ties to Russian intelligence services. Glazyev has consistently served as an advisor to the Russian government in some capacity or another for decades.
In fact, it seems quite like Kauder just has a general disdain for the concept of Canadian sovereignty, being more than willing to lend credence to the slander that Canadians are producing large amounts of fentanyl and not simply smuggling it over the US border, but around the world. Kauder herself has frequently commented that she wishes for the United States to invade us, as well. These are not tongue-in-cheek jokes, they are the genuine expressions of a radical racist who would sacrifice a generation of young Canadians to satisfy her fascist impulses for violence and mayhem.
Of course, Kauder only really seems to have issues when the "Nazis" in question are supposedly Ukrainian, repeating the same canard straight from the Kremlin's spin doctors. When faced with the reality that the Russian Federation is kidnapping Ukrainian children, Kauder only responds with the same eliminationist propaganda lines used to justify the genocide.
Individuals such as Kauder are prime targets for co-optation by foreign states. To put it mildly, she's a loser with a profound disdain for her country, who has been radicalised into profiting off of importing the same German racism that this country once proudly fought to stamp out. The heart of this "speaking tour" is a far-right politician for a party with countless neo-Nazi scandals, and her "manager," a woman with pervasive (if past) connections to neo-Nazis and a record of undermining Holocaust remembrance. This is the true face of the AfD, one that laughs in amusement at the legacy of Nazi terror, that gladly embraces Russian imperialism with open arms, and that actively seeks to agitate fifth columns against its host country's sovereignty and security.
Other speakers include:
-Cory Morgan, Wexiteer activist in support of Balkanizing Canada, and blogger of the Western Standard. So-called "Alberta Independence" has long been a cause championed by the radical right in an effort to establish a functional oil fiefdom and American dependency. Wexit has its roots in the Social Credit Party of Alberta, itself inspired in part by the antisemitism of other similar syncretic political programmes of the 1930s.
-Mocha Bezirgan, a former employee of the pro-Russian far-right website Rebel Media, an organisation that has a history of hiring individuals with ties to neo-Nazism (although Bezirgan is not one). Bezirgan has since taken up producing propaganda supportive of the Indian government and its interests, and is often overwhelmingly focused on presenting Indian religious minorities, particularly Sikhs, as criminals and malefactors in his content.
-Linda Blade, anti-LGBTQ2S campaigner who has expressed sympathy for Russian homophobic propaganda and attacks on the IOC multiple times, and been a backer of the Russian Government's efforts to disqualify boxers who beat Russian boxer Azalia Amineva, a Russian prospect who had an undefeated record until losing once to boxers Imane Khalif and Lin Yu-Ting. Amineva had her victorious opponents disqualified by boxing authorities tied to the Russian state, adding to further disrepute to Russian participation in global sporting events.
-Katherine Kowalchuk, lawyer and Wexiteer activist who supports Balkanizing Canada.
-Shawn Buckley, lawyer for the National Citizens' Inquiry, an anti-vaxxer organisation whose propaganda frequently align with narratives deployed as part of Russia's hybridized next-gen biowarfare operations.
-Tammy Peterson, the wife of noted pro-Russian benzodiazapine and steak addict Jordan Peterson, who himself had undergone treatment for his addiction to benzos in Russia on the recommendation of his daughter Mikhaila.
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