{"id":3144,"date":"2019-08-12T21:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2019-08-12T21:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T01:40:45","slug":"ontario-court-imposes-peace-bond-against-far-right-figure-over-online-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3144","title":{"rendered":"Ontario court imposes peace bond against far-right figure over online threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"story-h gn-speakable-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Ontario court imposes peace bond against far-right figure over online threats<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>[Richard Warman is the fair-haired boy of the incestuous Ottawa court system. Today it granted him a peace bond against a controversial person, Kevin Goudreau, whom he&#8217;d never met and who had never e-mailed or written to him. &#8220;I&#8217;m so afraid&#8221; is a now common posture of anti-racists who devote themselves to ruining the lives of people whose politics are contrary to theirs. &#8212; Paul Fromm]<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-byline\"><span class=\"story-author\">By <a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Rachel Browne\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/author\/rachel-browne\/\" rel=\"author\">Rachel Browne<\/a> <\/span> <span class=\"story-author-position story-author-no-thumbnail\"> National Online Journalist Politics Reporter \u00a0<span class=\"story-via\">Global News<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"socialShare withMore\" data-socialshare=\"comments,facebook,twitter,email,whatsapp,print\" data-socialshare-more=\"google,linkedin,reddit,pinterest,tumblr,stumbleupon\" data-socialshare-collapsable=\"false\" data-socialshare-count=\"false\" data-socialshare-url=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5755173\/ontario-court-peace-bond-far-right-figure\/?utm_expid=.kz0UD5JkQOCo6yMqxGqECg.0&amp;utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fglobalnews.ca%2Fnews%2F5755173%2Fontario-court-peace-bond-far-right-figure%2F\" data-socialshare-title=\"Ontario court imposes peace bond against far-right figure over online threats\" data-socialshare-init=\"true\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fe-embed-container\">\n<div id=\"video_5756902_wrapper\" class=\"sticky-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"stickyiframe-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"video_5756902\" class=\"inline-video\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/embed\/5756902\/#autoplay&amp;stickyiframe=video_5756902&amp;mute\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500px\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-displayinline-content=\"\" data-autosize=\"670\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"loading-icon loading\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fe-embed-caption\">\n<p><strong>Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman said he applied to the Ontario Court of Justice for a peace bond on June 3 after police repeatedly declined to lay charges against Kevin Goudreau. Today, the decision whether or not to grant the peace bond will be made.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"story-txt\">\n<div class=\"story-actions\">\n<div class=\"fontSizer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"fontSizerLetters\"> <span class=\"small\">A<\/span> <span class=\"big\">A<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>An Ontario court has imposed a peace bond against a far-right figure, in what is believed to be the first instance in which activists have sought such a peace bond in response to right-wing extremism in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Justice of the Peace Stephanie Goffin-Boyd on Monday ordered\u00a0Kevin Goudreau, head of the Canadian National Front, to enter into the peace bond and abide by four conditions for 12 months, including not making violent threats online or otherwise towards Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman, and other board members with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network.<\/p>\n<p>Goudreau is also prohibited from possessing any weapons.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"gnca-article-story-txt gn-speakable-description\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"story-ad\">\n<section id=\"div-gpt-gnca-ads-6872-300250-2\" class=\"ad is-loaded\" data-google-query-id=\"CMyw1MLZ_uMCFRSOaQodMJsCaw\" data-load-time=\"1565659869245\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6872\/shaw.globalnews.ca\/none\/5755173\/rachel-browne_4__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6872\/shaw.globalnews.ca\/none\/5755173\/rachel-browne_4\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/6872\/shaw.globalnews.ca\/none\/5755173\/rachel-browne_4\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-google-container-id=\"5\" data-load-complete=\"true\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p>In June, Warman asked the court to issue a peace bond that would order <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5386892\/anti-racist-activist-asks-court-to-ban-threats\/\">Goudreau, <\/a>who resides in Peterborough, Ont., to cease making threats online against him. Warman, who a board member with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said police had repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mykawartha.com\/news-story\/9281469-peterborough-police-not-pressing-charges-over-alleged-inflammatory-kevin-goudreau-facebook-post\/\">declined<\/a> to lay charges against Goudreau, and so he pursued a peace bond, which is like a restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>The Crown took over the matter for Warman, who served as the only witness at the hearing on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no expectations, but I am absolutely relieved,\u201d Warman told Global News after the decision was rendered. He said he wished that police had pursued criminal charges, but that the peace bond sets a positive precedent for human rights activists who are targeted online and looking for possible remedies.<\/p>\n<p>After the Christchurch, New Zealand attacks in March, a post was shared on a Facebook page belonging to Goudreau. The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en_ca\/article\/nexymw\/two-canadian-neo-nazis-are-under-investigation-for-post-christchurch-acts\">encouraged<\/a> violence against \u201cpriority targets\u201d including the Canadian Anti Hate Network, other anti-racist groups and government agencies.<\/p>\n<p>It also mentioned media outlets including VICE, the <i>National Post <\/i>and CBC.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Goudreau, who represented himself at court, said at the hearing that the social media posts aren\u2019t his. Goudreau <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5386892\/anti-racist-activist-asks-court-to-ban-threats\/\">previously<\/a> told Global News that his website states his group does not \u201cpromote, advocate or incite hatred or violence by our members or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The court said there was no evidence to suggest that the social media posts were not Goudreau\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Warman, who has monitored far-right and neo-Nazi movements in Canada for decades, told the court that Goudreau\u2019s posts made him fear for his safety.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not just the potential for Mr. Goudreau \u2026 it\u2019s for the fellow neo-Nazis who are actually reading the post. Because we know that there is a long history of violence involved in the neo-Nazi movement in Canada,\u201d Warman told the court. He added that the posts disputed by Goudreau are consistent with other written and video content posted by him over the years.<\/p>\n<p>Goudreau, chairman of the Canadian Nationalist Front (formerly the White Nationalist Front) who has a large swastika <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.ctvnews.ca\/man-with-swastika-tattoo-organizing-white-supremacist-rally-in-peterborough-ont-1.3609480\">tattooed<\/a> on his chest, was <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5141557\/facebook-bans-extremism-hate-policy\/\">banned from Facebook<\/a> and Twitter in April as part of a crackdown on extremist content and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/article-twitter-bans-white-supremacist-group-canadian-nationalist-front\/\">\u201corganized hate\u201d<\/a> that followed the New Zealand mosque attack that left <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/05\/02\/world\/asia\/new-zealand-attack-death-toll.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">51<\/a> people dead. The<a href=\"https:\/\/wnf-canada.blogspot.com\/\"> blog<\/a> for Goudreau\u2019s group, however, is still online and active.<\/p>\n<p><strong> READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/5141557\/facebook-bans-extremism-hate-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Facebook bans half-dozen Canadian pages under extremism, hate policy <\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a brief cross-examination of Warman, Goudreau asked whether they had ever communicated directly or indirectly. Warman responded that they had not spoken directly or met in person, but that he felt the posts were an indirect form of communication between them \u2014 and that the posts were threatening.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat makes you think that I am any particular danger besides these supposed internet postings?\u201d Goudreau asked Warman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause you\u2019ve engaged in threats of violence, and counselling violence, over the past at least eight years that I\u2019ve seen communications by you posted online, whether in person, through Youtube videos, or through social media postings,\u201d Warman replied.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I go to the posting itself, you openly advocate shooting high-value targets, as you describe them, in the wake of a terrorist attack that left 51 people dead. So, if I think that there is the likelihood of copycat violence taking place in the wake of those kinds of attacks and then you go and advocate that specific thing, including shooting me and my colleagues twice in the head to ensure that we\u2019re dead, that makes me reasonably fearful for my safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ontario court imposes peace bond against far-right figure over online threats [Richard Warman is the fair-haired boy of the incestuous Ottawa court system. 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