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Public Safety committee In terms of the specific nature of far-right groups in Quebec, there's obviously the fact that the groups are bilingual and that they're at the crossroads between American and French extremist groups. A great deal of anti-Semitism comes from French far-right groups. As you know,
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee Yes. Many people say, for example, that Alexandre Bissonnette didn't commit a terrorist act. I personally consider that he committed a terrorist act. Alexandre Bissonnette wasn't charged with terrorism because it would have been pointless. We already knew that he would receive a
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee This doesn't include online events. It includes only events that happened in the real world. The only online events that we included were harassment events.
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee This is the topic of a study coming out in September in which we're developing a psychosocial profile based on interviews. I can't talk too much about that right now. The reasons are extensive and complex. I'll give you the example of an interview that I conducted with the leade
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee You're absolutely right. However, since there are only 20 seconds left, I can't say much more about this topic.
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee I have eight seconds. You're partly right, but there's more to it than that.
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee Excellent question. Of course, the answer isn't straightforward. I believe in educating people, starting with young people. That's what I do. I educate people about cognitive biases. It's becoming increasingly difficult to understand how scientific discourse works. This has been
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee We and our colleagues from the UNESCO Chair at the Université de Sherbrooke are conducting parallel research on the various movements against health measures. A core group of people who are part of these movements or who believe in this agenda come from the far right. During the
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee Yes, there's a shift. One leader of the anti-health measures movement in Quebec, Steeve L'Artiss Charland, is the former second-in-command of La Meute. There's also Mario Roy, who is now in prison for contempt of court and who is part of the sovereign citizens movement. He's a fo
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee I'm often told that these groups aren't dangerous because they're small in number and marginal. We often estimate that the far right in Canada amounts to less than 1% of the population. Political parties that have a far-right ideology don't get many votes. The parties will get le
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee I would say that it's linked to the online presence, but that it goes much deeper than that. Cognitive biases play a key role in conspiracy theories and all those extremist groups that believe in conspiracy theories. These biases are very significant, and not only for extremists
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee In the 1990s, the White Berets were already talking about a global pedosatanic cabal. They said that the government would inject chips under our skin to control us. Does that sound familiar? We're hearing that quite often today. When people talk about QAnon as if it's a brand ne
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee “A leopard cannot change its spots.”
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee I have 20 seconds. Is that what you're telling me?
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy
Public Safety committee I don't know what to say in 20 seconds. We've noticed that, over the past year, far-right groups have set aside their anti-immigration agenda somewhat and shifted towards an anti-authority agenda. This is what we call “all-out anti-authority.” However, behind this anti-authority
May 31st, 2021Committee meeting
Martin Geoffroy