Melissa Guille
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Melissa Guille is a white supremacist and the leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance
. Founded in Kitchener
-Waterloo
, Ontario, the group, which has been characterised as white supremacist, was accused of having links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener based Tri-City Skins
.
In 2001, according to a report by the Canadian Press wire service "B'nai Brith Canada and Waterloo Region police have both identified the Canadian Heritage Alliance as a white supremacy
organization with ties to established hate groups." Guille denied the allegations saying "We are a nationalist group, not a hate group, We're not promoting hate at all. We're not hurting anybody and we're not suggesting anybody be hurt," While acknowledging being the ex-girlfriend of Heritage Front
leader Marc Lemire
, Guille denied that her group was affiliated with any hate groups though she was reported as saying her group did appeal to those who believe in white supremacy and that such people were welcome to join.
On her website, Guille wrote "Europeans now face the most extensive racial discrimination in history, There is a war going on, and it's for our rights and freedoms in a country that our ancestors shaped."
Far-right leader Paul Fromm has been a mentor to her. For a number of years Guille, Fromm, and several others attended the gay pride annual march in London, Ontario, and demonstrated against the marchers. She posted photos from these demonstrations on her site. The police were always in attendance.
In 2004 she was linked with the white supremacist organization Western Canada For Us
as a scheduled speaker at one of their meetings.
The CHA and Melissa Guille are co-defendants in a federal human rights complaint for Internet hate filed in 2004 by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman. The complaint alleges that material on the website would likely expose homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, First Nations, blacks, Arabs, other non-whites, and Roma to hatred or contempt in violation of s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Website content engaged in Holocaust denial, and argued that whites who have relationships with black men deserve to die, that Jews are the literal children of Satan, and that non-white immigration into Europe is worse than the Black Plague that struck during the Middle Ages. The hearing began in 2006 and further dates are being scheduled.
Canadian Heritage Alliance
The Canadian Heritage Alliance is a Canadian white supremacist group founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Detective Terry Murphy of London's Hate Crime Unit alleged that the group had links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge-based Tri-City Skins.Its leader, Melissa...
. Founded in Kitchener
Kitchener, Ontario
The City of Kitchener is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It was the Town of Berlin from 1854 until 1912 and the City of Berlin from 1912 until 1916. The city had a population of 204,668 in the Canada 2006 Census...
-Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo is a city in Southern Ontario, Canada. It is the smallest of the three cities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, and is adjacent to the city of Kitchener....
, Ontario, the group, which has been characterised as white supremacist, was accused of having links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener based Tri-City Skins
Tri-City Skins
Tri-City Skins was an Ontario-based white power group active from 1997 to 2002 in the Kitchener-Waterloo and Cambridge area. James Scott Richardson was the group's most visible member, and in October 2001, police believed that Tri-City Skins had 25 members in southwestern Ontario...
.
In 2001, according to a report by the Canadian Press wire service "B'nai Brith Canada and Waterloo Region police have both identified the Canadian Heritage Alliance as a white supremacy
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
organization with ties to established hate groups." Guille denied the allegations saying "We are a nationalist group, not a hate group, We're not promoting hate at all. We're not hurting anybody and we're not suggesting anybody be hurt," While acknowledging being the ex-girlfriend of Heritage Front
Heritage Front
The Heritage Front was a Canadian neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded in 1989 and disbanded around 2005.The Heritage Front maintained a telephone message line with a different editorial each day. The voice on the hotline was Gary Schipper...
leader Marc Lemire
Marc Lemire
Marc Lemire is a figure in the Canadian white supremacist movement. He works closely with leader Paul Fromm, and is the webmaster of the Hamilton, Ontario-based Freedom-Site which he began in 1996. He has been called a "bigot" by Jonathan Kay of the National Post...
, Guille denied that her group was affiliated with any hate groups though she was reported as saying her group did appeal to those who believe in white supremacy and that such people were welcome to join.
On her website, Guille wrote "Europeans now face the most extensive racial discrimination in history, There is a war going on, and it's for our rights and freedoms in a country that our ancestors shaped."
Far-right leader Paul Fromm has been a mentor to her. For a number of years Guille, Fromm, and several others attended the gay pride annual march in London, Ontario, and demonstrated against the marchers. She posted photos from these demonstrations on her site. The police were always in attendance.
In 2004 she was linked with the white supremacist organization Western Canada For Us
Western Canada For Us
Western Canada For Us was a short-lived Alberta-based white nationalist group founded by Glenn Bahr and Peter Kouba in early 2004. The WCFU was formally dissolved on May 11, 2004, four days after Bahr's residence in Edmonton, Alberta, was raided by members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes division...
as a scheduled speaker at one of their meetings.
The CHA and Melissa Guille are co-defendants in a federal human rights complaint for Internet hate filed in 2004 by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman. The complaint alleges that material on the website would likely expose homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, First Nations, blacks, Arabs, other non-whites, and Roma to hatred or contempt in violation of s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Website content engaged in Holocaust denial, and argued that whites who have relationships with black men deserve to die, that Jews are the literal children of Satan, and that non-white immigration into Europe is worse than the Black Plague that struck during the Middle Ages. The hearing began in 2006 and further dates are being scheduled.
External links
- 2000 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: Hate Groups in Canada
- 2004 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: Hate on the Internet
- 2005 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: Hate on the Internet
- 2006 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents: Law Enforcement and Judicial Intervention
- U.S. Probes Neo-Nazi Website After 'Death Threat' to Canadians
- "Journey into darkness: Covert research in the Canadian racist underground", Matthew Lauder
- The New Generation of Organised Racialism in Canada