Canada: Why I filed an ethics complaint against an 'Antifa government lawyer'
The corrupt Canadian Anti-Hate Network
By Eric Gomez
Few would agree that the state of speech rights and civil liberties in Canada is in good shape.
On top of the ongoing over-prosecution of anti-lockdown protesters and the empowering of federal bureaucrats to regulate social media, Prime Minister Justin Trudeauโs Liberal Party gave awayย millions of taxpayer dollars to third-party ideologues to attack groups they donโt like, cordoning off huge sections of our debate space in the process. ย
The federally funded Canadian Anti-Hate Network (Canadaโs version of the SPLC), for instance, initiated Trudeauโs smear campaign to labelย lockdown-skeptics as โwhite supremacistsโ and bragged internallyย to their Heritage Department-funders that one of its top grant-funded achievements was doxxing a young man who threw pebbles at Trudeau during one of the latterโs many mixed post-COVID receptions. ย
Staggeringly, CAHN is now applying to obtain a giant $5 million (Canadian) grantย to become an official internet watchdog, which, despite an Ontario court recently declaringย them and their notorious board member Richard Warmanย to be โa part ofโ and โprovider of assistance toโ the ultra-violent Antifa movement, they will likely receive if the Liberalsโ totalitarian trajectory is anything to go by. ย
Warman is almost a household name in Canada. On his weaponization of a since-repealed law allowing private citizens to sue individuals for allegedly uttering โcontemptuous speechโ, one outletย writes:ย ย
Section 13 was thrust into the public eye in 2002 with the arrival of Warmanโs novel strategy to proactively use the legislation to shut down voices he disapproved of. While the law was intended for the protection of minority groups, Warman โ a white male โ was responsible for an impressive 16 complaints, the most of any individual.ย ย ย ย ย ย ย
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In some instances, Warman obtained his evidence byย provoking extremist statements from obscure online message boards. Sometimesย he even posed as a neo-Nazi poster himself,ย which one tribunal adjudicator later saidย โdiminish[ed] his credibilityโ andย โcould have precipitated further hate messages.โย Partly because his targets were mostly poor and couldnโt afford legal help, Warman was successful in every case but one. He was awardedย tens of thousands of dollars in monetary compensation for the damages he purportedly suffered. As oneย Huffington Postย contributor wryly describedย Warman: โHeโs sacked more peewee quarterbacks than any other NFL linebacker.โย ย
Since then, on top of advising CAHN and launching a failed defamation suitย against mother-and-son conservative journalists Barbara and Jon Kay (the one where he got the Antifa label), heโs also filedย numerousย questionableย ethics complaintsย against lawyers whose politics he doesnโt like. Although it seems none of them have ever been successful, Warman no doubt knows he has an army of likeminded journalist-activists at his disposal (like those who form the "network" in CAHNโs name, listed here) willing to treat such complaints as newsworthy developments, thereby signaling to the public that opinions not shared by our Laurentian elite will not be tolerated.ย ย
Recently, I did the same thing against him. Warman, apart from being a CAHN legal advisor, works as a lawyerย for the Defense Department and is a Judge Advocate-Generalย reservist. Never mind it seems outrageous that an โAntifa affiliateโ could occupy such posts, being part of a group declaredย a domestic-terror threat most certainly goes against numerous provisions of Ontarioโs legal practitionersโ code of ethics. It should go without that saying that being part of a group which, in the wordsย of Biden administration prosecutors, uses โforce, fear, and violence to further their own interests and to suppress the interests of othersโ,ย shouldย undermine both the โpublic confidence inย the integrity of the professionโ or contravene Ontario lawyersโ responsibility toย โencourageย public respect for [] the administration of justice.โย
In my complaint, I remind the Law Society of Ontarioย just what type of group Warman and CAHN have been found to be โpromotingโ and โendorsing.โ In Canada, Antifa members have been convictedย for numerous acts of extreme violence (including physical assaults on journalists), while the Canadian Security Intelligence Service even listsย them (that is, โAnarchist Violenceโ) as a serious domestic threat. In 2021 alone, it was estimatedย that in the United Stated there were โ31 anarchist, antifascist, and like-minded terrorist attacks and plotsโฆ19 were melee attacks using weapons such as knives or bludgeoning objects, 3 primarily used explosives or incendiaries, 2 used firearms, and 1 was a vehicular attack.โย ย
Previous to this, Antifa members have been convicted of attempting to derail a train, blow up a law enforcement building, and have committed cold-blooded murderย against individuals simply because of their perceived conservative views (the murderer was later killed himself following a shoot-out with police).ย
Figures like Warman make one think of leftists who understand the crucial importance open debate has in free societies; people like Canadaโs Alan Bovoroy, late-sixties campus activist Mario Savio, the ACLUโsย David Goldberger, or contemporary progressives like Nadine Strassen,ย Matt Taibbi or Glenn Greenwald. I shudder to think what our society will look like if the Canadian left sheds the wiser and more principled advocates among them. Although the โAntifa leftโ can advocate for any laws or policies they like, they canโt be allowed to use violence and intimidation to shut down speech they hate. In the meantime, Iโll do what I can to ensure that they, at the very least, donโt get an official stamp of approval from our professional regulatory boards or our Canadian federal government.ย
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Thanks for reading. For more on the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, read Good Canadians Hunted In The Name Of Anti-Hate
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This is a very interesting story. Caryma seems to have a running conflict with the anti hate dot ca. Can you please post updates as this story evolves? Thx.
Cute that you think that Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi are progressives. They are neither right nor left, they stand for journalistic integrity and take swings at all parts of the political spectrum.