Adrien Arcand was a Montreal journalist

Journalist

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 who led a series of fascist

Fascism

Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...

 political movements between 1929 and his death in 1967. During his political career he proclaimed himself the Canadian führer

Führer

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He was detained by the federal government for the duration of World War II

World War II

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 under the Defence of Canada Regulations

Defence of Canada Regulations

The Defence of Canada Regulations were a set of emergency measures implemented under the War Measures Act a week before Canada's entry into World War II in the fall of 1939....

Arcand published and edited several anti-Semitic newspapers during this period, most notably Le Goglu, Le Miroir, Le Chameau, Le Patriote, Le Fasciste Canadien and Le Combat National.