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President Trump has announced his coming crackdown on the far-left, hateful, inciteful Antifa. What could that mean for the powerful Canadian lobby, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network et al, which is associated with the group?
Marco Rubio’s post further highlights the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance approach to far-left violence:
America will not host foreigners who celebrate the death of our fellow citizens.
Visa revocations are under way. If you are here on a visa and cheering on the public assassination of a political figure, prepare to be deported. You are not welcome in this country. pic.twitter.com/dQys2OAeK7
— Secretary Marco Rubio (@SecRubio) September 16, 2025
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN) lobby in Canada says in its own words:
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is a proudly independent and antifascist nonprofit organization.
Antifa is short for “Antifascist.” CAHN lists among its priorities the targeting of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, anti-2SLGBTQ+ movements, male supremacist movements and anti-gender movements.
A National Post report in 2022 revealed key points about the Canadian Anti-Hate Network’s alliance with Antifa.
- “A recent decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has given Canadians yet another reason to question the federal government’s relationship with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN)……”
- “The judge said that the statements made had the benefit of being true, noting that, “CAHN did in fact assist Antifa and that the movement has been violent,” and it would be reasonable to state that it is not a “good look” for a human rights organization to support a violent movement.”
- “The decision tells us two things: that there are members of CAHN who are willing to use the legal system to silence its critics, and that there is a relationship between CAHN and the Antifa movement.”
So what happens when America’s neighbor is engaged with the Antifa-linked CAHN? The group boasts Liberal government funding.
FUNDED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF CANADA
Our work is made possible in part thanks to grants from the Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program and the Community Resilience Fund.
“@CarymaRules alleges federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network has aided Antifa-aligned groups that are compiling private dossiers on citizens via Discord.”#ProtestMania https://t.co/D0nmoV9gZP
— Caryma Sa’d – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) September 17, 2025
Israel Now leader Meir Weinstein wrote:
The Liberal Government of Canada provides funding to the Canadian Anti Hate Network that supports Antifa which is now listed as a Terrorist Organization by the USA Government. There must be an investigation ASAP. pic.twitter.com/PNiE6RPkUf
— Israel Now (@neveragainlive1) September 18, 2025
The Anti-Hate Network has also received $25,000 from Mohamad Fakih, the owner of Paramount Fine Foods, who sparked an outcry, followed by demands to strip him of an Order of Canada award, when he stated: “Supporters of Israel ‘do not have basic human values, let alone Canadian values.’”
CAHN was co-founded and steered by Bernie Farber, who served as a member of the Trudeau government’s “expert” advisory group on online “safety.” Farber chaired CAHN from 2018 until 2023, and now serves as founding chair emeritus.
Illustrating just how determined Farber’s far-left group is, it published a booklet in 2022, entitled Confronting and Preventing Hate in Canadian Schools, which was supposed to be a toolkit against “online hate,” and was slated for government distribution all across Canada. In reality, it turned publicly funded schools into leftist indoctrination camps, with traditional values presented as “hate.” The booklet was a companion to the unprecedented Trudeau Liberal Internet censorship bill which sparked a strong backlash. Despite being presented as fighting “hate,” the new booklet instead fueled further hatred and division in Canada.
The 53-page propaganda booklet advanced “core values” of the far left. Some of them:
- Freedom of expression is presented as a cover for “hate.”
- Trump’s border wall to stop illegals is presented as “hate.”
- Mainstream Conservative parties are singled out and presented as being “infiltrated” by bigots, “groypers,” and “white nationalists.” The inappropriate pamphlet actually states: “While the majority of Groypers are white, there are a growing number of youth of colour involved in the movement, as they engage in antisemitism, anti- feminism/misogyny, anti-2SLGBTQIA+, Islamophobia, and anti-Black racism.”
- The book names people such as Lauren Southern and Faith Goldy.
- It makes the claim: “In our work, some of the most extreme neo-Nazis have been teenage girls.”
- It condemns a “specific Canadian flavour” of the “worldview” that is “seen on many college campuses, often under the banner of “Canada First.”
- In a chapter on “hate promoting symbols,” the booklet names the Red Ensign flag as offensive, even though it was used as Canada’s national symbol until 1965.
- It condemns concerns about terrorism and crime as “anti-immigrant.”
- It references Trump as a “problematic politician” and condemns his border wall as “racist.”
- It warns about students who may inquire “why there aren’t any straight pride parades, or a white history month during class discussion.”
- Without context, anti-police sentiment is taught, as the pamphlet teaches that “Black residents are 20 times more likely to be shot by Toronto police than white counterparts.”
- The booklet ironically utilizes intersectional tropes and stereotypes “people of colour,” stating that “shared beliefs in misogyny, anti-2SLGBTQIA+, Islamophobia, and anti-Blackness will often attract and unite people of colour to hate groups.”
- It heavily promotes the Marxist, anti-nuclear family Black Lives Matter movement.
Farber has also called Christian evangelicals “Bible-thumping ultra-conservatives.”
The federally-subsidized Anti-Hate Network received a $268,400 grant to fund its guide, which also warned studentsto be wary of classmates who speak fondly of Donald Trump.
The group is still publishing articles including “REMIGRATION: HOW WHITE NATIONALISTS ARE REPACKAGING ETHNIC CLEANSING.”
Charlie Kirk gave his assessment of Canada and its former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau nearly a year ago:
Here is Charlie Kirk almost a year ago being asked what he would do if he was Prime Minister of Canada. pic.twitter.com/fSy4rmrNXa
— Ryan Gerritsen (@ryangerritsen) September 11, 2025
There are many outstanding questions that apply across the border. For instance, what does it mean now for the anti-Trump, Anti-Hate Network, which is linked to Antifa, that President Trump has announced that he will list Antifa as a “Terror Organization” after the murder of Charlie Kirk? Will its leaders be barred from entering the US? And how will the Canadian government’s funding of CAHN sit with the Trump administration?
