Right Response: Right Wing Extremism in Canada

Objectives

• Identify right-wing hate groups that plan, engage in or incite violence.
• Assess the frequency, nature and severity of the violence.
• Identify factors external (e.g. presence and strength of perceived threat and/or target group) and internal (e.g. intensity of rhetoric, organizational capacity) to the groups that are most likely to give rise to violence.

Methodologies/Source

• website analysis
• Judicial records
• terrorism databases
• media scan
• interviews with law enforcement and intelligence communities
• interviews with community activists
• interviews with hate group activists

Principal Investigator

BARBARA PERRY, PhD