Travis Patron, who founded the now\u002Ddefunct Canadian Nationalist Party, was convicted of hate speech earlier this month
Travis Patron, who founded the now-defunct party, was convicted of wilfully promoting hate by a jury earlier this month during a trial in Estevan, Sask.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails. Postmedia Network Inc.
He declined to acknowledge a community victim impact statement from Michael Mostyn, the CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, a Jewish human rights organization, that was placed before him in court.Article content On June 3, 2019, Patron uploaded an antisemitic video on the Canadian Nationalist Party website and its social media channels.
He ran as a candidate in the rural Saskatchewan riding of Souris-Moose Mountain and earned less than one per cent of the vote.His video had remained up for 21 months before it was taken down, which the Crown argued was an aggravating factor. Statistics Canada released a report this year saying police-reported hate crimes targeting race or ethnicity rose 80 per cent in 2020 compared to 2019 and accounted for the bulk of the national increase.