Arrest for leader of Canadian far-right party who allegedly said Jews should be removed “once-and-for-all, from our country”

Travis Patron, the founder and head of the far-right Canadian Nationalist Party (CNP), who reportedly said that Jews should be removed “once-and-for-all from our country”, has been arrested and charged with wilfully promoting hatred against Jews.

The arrest of Mr Patron, 29, in his home province of Saskatchewan, follows a 2019 social network video called “Beware the Parasitic Tribe.” In the video, Mr Patron claimed that Jewish people “infiltrate the media”, are “swindlers” and “snakes” and that they “infect the body politic like a parasite.”

What “we need to do,” he said, “is remove these people once-and-for-all from our country.”

Following the video, an official complaint was filed against Mr Patron with the police and the Saskatchewan Attorney-General by Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre.

Mr Patron, who, according to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, also has a social media history of denying the Holocaust, is scheduled to appear in court on 14th April. The maximum penalty for the offence is two years in prison.

Jewish groups welcomed the news of his arrest.

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