Several years ago, campuses across Canada's major cities found themselves the sites of efforts to mobilise students behind far-right causes. Organisations such as the Students for Western Civilisation, ID Canada, and Canada First popped up with the intent of organising students and youth towards explicitly white nationalist causes. Other organisations attempted to instead frame their far-right advocacy in terms of "free speech" and "open inquiry," which really functioned as an excuse to host hate activists using campus resources, to expose impressionable youth to the fledgling alt-right. These groups included the Free Speech Club (FSC) and Students for Free Expression (SFE) at the University of British Columbia , the Laurier Society for Open Inquiry (LSOI) at Laurier and the University of Waterloo, and Students in Support of Free Speech (SSFS) at York and the University of Toronto. In some cases such as the SSFS, the organisation was founded or had initial ...
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