Across Canada, a confrontation party is building and Prince George has been invited.
The Canadian Coalition of Concerned Citizens is a Montreal-based Facebook group that has about 2,500 members online. The page has issued event invitations for numerous cities to join today in a march on city hall from noon to 2 p.m. Prince George is one of the cities on the list.
"We are against Motion 103, the Islamification of Canada, and globalization," said the CCCC's apparent spokesperson Georges Hallack, named by the Windsor Star as the founder.
Reports from across Canada indicate some cities will host parallel marches to protest any CCCC activities.
"There are going to be protests," Hallack self-confirmed by video.
"That means, if they are against us, these people are for Sharia law, that means they are for Motion 103, and that means these people are for globalization."
He does not explain how Sharia law is gaining a foothold in Canada. He also does not offer a definition for globalization.
He did say, though, that their aims were peaceful.
"I don't want to see violence being done. If we're going to accomplish what we want to accomplish, to save Canada, we have to do it in a peaceful manner, we have to do it with love, we have to do it dialoguing with Muslims, with Jews, with Christians.
"Let's come together and start a corporation of love between each other where we can discuss why is there so much hate between each other?"
The self-description of the CCCC on Facebook speaks of all races and religions being equal.
Examining the posts on their page, however, quickly demonstrates an exclusively negative portrayal of Islamic people and urges viewers to oppose the Islamic presence in Canada.
Former violent skinhead Daniel Gallant, now a UNBC Master of Social Work graduate and on the cusp of commencing a role in the legal profession in northern B.C. said he recognizes the type of tactics being used by CCCC.
"They are a David Duke-y kind of organization: populist racism," said Gallant, pointing to Duke as a former Imperial Wizard for the Ku Klux Klan who went into mainstream politics in the U.S.
"These guys remind me of The Soldiers of Odin (a white supremacy organization with chapters in Canada) in their positions on the Charter arguments and their feelings on Sharia law being a threat to Canadian law.
"They start you off with arguments that seem logical, like we want better healthcare and we want better support for the military and we want tax reform, but eventually you get down to their real foundations and that looks a lot like pushing intolerance and definitions of Canadian that most Canadians would find hateful. A number of these groups have cropped up in Canada in the last few years, and they've gained real footholds in the last one year."
