Following my previous article on the Dominion Society, it has become increasingly clear that my assessment of the organisation has proven to be largely correct: This is a neo-Nazi organisation, attempting to professionalise white supremacists across Canada to bring about a shift in acceptable political discourse by presenting the policy demands of neo-Nazis as defences of "Canadian heritage." During a Twitter Space hosted by Diagolon leadership figure Alex Vriend and other minor neo-Nazi podcasters, Daniel Tyrie has functionally admitted to all of this, ranging from declarations that the entryist vehicle seeks to encourage the recruitment of "radicals" (meaning radical racists) to "push the Overton Window," and declaring that the Dominion Society will stand for "Actual Canadians," not "Jews, Muslims, and Khalistanis," supposedly in contrast with our government.
Daniel Tyrie makes it abundantly clear that he is trying to fight so-called "Jewish influence" in Canada's party system, and contrasts Jewish Canadians with "Actual Canadians."
Pictured: Artist's depiction of Daniel Tyrie, thinking he is a mastermind who has cleverly hidden his goals from the world
Let us be unequivocal: "Remigration" is an explicit declaration of the intent to initiate policies of ethnic cleansing. Mass deportation is a crime against humanity, a crime waged by the totalitarian states of the 20th Century to subjugate and ethnic minorities and exploit them for the economic gain of the ethnic majority. The central goal of the Dominion Society is to replicate such crimes in the modern day. As written by Nicholas Werth, the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin sought to subjugate several minorities from 1935-1949 because their existence was seen as a threat to the unity of the state and to the projects of Russophication and Sovietization, and the same threat perception is echoed in the rhetoric of the Dominion Society's propaganda. Deportation was one of the principal means of this, removing minority groups from their homelands to settle in remote territories. Another example can be found in the Madagascar Plan, which saw efforts of Nazi Germany to send its Jewish population to Madagascar. When these plans fell through, Germany instead accelerated the mass extermination campaign that defined the Holocaust.
However, there is one thing I was wrong about. I significantly underestimated Tyrie's numbers. They have
"Our Guys" In the Conservative Party
Later, on August 27-28 in an unrecorded space hosted by the neo-Nazi podcaster Fortissax, Tyrie reiterated both his position on expanding the Overton window, but let on an interesting tidbit: he has identified that there are "his guys" within the Conservative Party who align with the values of the Dominion Society but cannot afford to voice their opinions. Moreover, they had former Republican Party (and the Conservative Parties of Canada and British Columbia) political operative and outed neo-Nazi (thanks, Will Stancil!) Othman Mekhloufi on that same chat to describe how it is important to deploy a discursive strategy that "creates space" through the adoption of radicalism so mainstream actors have the ability to gradually maneuver towards more extreme positions. Put another way, by creating greater acceptability for neo-Nazism, they have an easier time mainstreaming their programme of ethnic cleansing through the Conservative Party. This builds on previous statements in the August 22-23 space in which Tyrie stated that he neither intends to push back on extremists within his organisation, stating that they provide a means of legitimising his organisation's goals as they are presented as being more moderate in comparison. While this largely means neo-Nazis, but Tyrie has also stated his welcome of those American integrationists who seek to betray Canada for the United States.
Amid threats from the United States to forcibly annex Canada and disenfranchise our country into a single 51st state, it is an active threat to our sovereignty to include such self-declared traitors and to network them with paramilitary movements such as Diagolon and its Second Sons formation. They are overtly offering the opportunity for such individuals to take up arms against Canada in the event of such a crisis, and to collaborate with any such occupation to repress their fellow Canadians. In their declarations to shift the Overton window, in favour of their white nationalist agenda, what they are also declaring is the intent to create space for and legitimise foreign occupation of the Canadian state.
Tyrie in the August 22 chat largely saying the same thing (I didn't have a recording of the 28th)
These statements should be contextualised with Poilievre's recent statements that Canada's population "must decrease significantly." Even one participant of the convervation, Joshua Nosek, fully approves of the statement and (incorrectly) views it as a repercussion of support for the People's Party of Canada, which underperformed this election but still likely swung at least one race in Brampton East.
What we are currently see unfold is an organisation that has enthusiastically incorporated neo-Nazis into its membership, embracing Nazi policies of the past, and now, discussing its intent to politically marginalise minorities from participation in the political process. Furthermore, this is an effort to integrate and legitimise neo-Nazis within that same political process and enact a totalitarian vision that has precedent in the defining genocide of human memory. Beyond its stated goals to bring about general discursive change to our body politic, the Dominion Society intends to do so through entryist campaigns that win over Conservative staffers and politicians.
Origins of the Dominion Society
The Dominion Society itself finds its roots in the Groyper movement and specifically the Canada First campus movement that was prominent at Ryerson. Canada First would then become a slogan for the Conservative Party of Canada's 2025 election campaign, marking its first mainstream adoption in a century since its use by Nazi sympathisers during the lead-up to the Second World War. As described by John Ross Taylor in a 1938 speech:
Wentzell, Tyler. 2023. Scenes of Berlin: Fascism and Anti-Fascism in
Toronto during the Summer of 1938
As Ken Jones of Hamilton explains:
This affirms my previous article's findings of how the alt-right campus activism of 2017-2019 radicalised Tyrie and his cohorts, networked them into a cohesive base for racist organising, and have now provided them with the opportunity to band together with more extreme elements of our society to effectuate policy change. A moment starting with Lindsay Shepherd's efforts to hold white nationalist rallies with Faith Goldy, and proceeding into Tyler Russell's more openly fascistic Canada First. I think this connection is especially salient when we consider that Tyrie's special guest for his August 28 livestream, Othman Mekhloufi, was an operative supporting the Conservative Party of British Columbia, the same party that Lindsay Shepherd was the director of. That moment of campus activism eight years ago marks a watershed moment in Canada's history of antisemitism and racism that has immense repercussions today.
Conclusion: A Revision of Canadian Identity
To close, we should understand what the fundamental, overarching goal of the Dominion Society is. It is not simply remigration, but a reinvention of Canadian identity based upon a revised understanding of history, one that does not simply seek to whitewash Canadian history, but to reinvent Canadian identity wholesale. What Tyrie, Jones, and Wycliffe want is an ontological transformation of what it means to be Canadian. When Tyrie says that the Dominion Society should seek to intervene in local conversations on historical monuments, he does so with the intent of dominating discourse and forward a white supremacist identity that is even alien to John A MacDonald's proclamations of an "Aryan character" of the nation.
The most readily apparent is the effort to integrate neo-Nazism within this new identity. While John A MacDonald was certainly a racist, his government was rather welcoming of Jewish settlement and integration into Canadian affairs. After all, Jews played a key history in the formation of British One Nation Toryism that deeply influenced the Red Toryism of MacDonald. In contrast, Tyrie's antisemtism and rehabilitation of neo-Nazis is the result of a foreign import, brought by the twentieth century by German efforts to spread the Nazi ideology to the Britain's present and former colonies, as a means of shaking its identity and ontological relationship with the British Empire. This is a rehabilitation of a belief system that was never adopted by the Canadian nation, and that posed an existential threat to that nation that had not been seen at that time since the War of 1812. It is the latter half of the German colonial-totalitarian programme that posed the antithesis of Canadian national identity, and its rejection in 1914 and 1945 was the single formative moment of Canadian nationhood.
But equally egregious is Tyrie's stated refusal to turn away "Americanists," those who now seek to take up the Trump regime's colonial ambitions of annexing Canada. The first inception of Canadian identity was to reject the American Revolution for God, King, and Country. It is the cause that Isaac Brock, whose image the Dominion Society has since taken to appropriating, sacrificed his life to stop during the War of 1812. It is the very premise for Confederation and the formation of the Dominion.
Tyrie's project spits on the graves of those brave men buried at Drummond Hill and Flanders. It spits on the memorials of those who died resisting the tyranny of the Nazis. It is an insult to the memory of the men of my Anglo-Canadian family that fought until Victory In Europe and built their families in Canada. The very men that Tyrie romanticizes.
It is an abomination, a perversion that must be exterminated.
We are the True North, strong and free
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