An Ottawa man is the first ever to be charged in Canada with terrorism and hate propaganda offences for advocating a violent, far-right ideology.
RCMP say they arrested and charged 26-year-old Patrick Gordon Macdonald with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and wilfully promoting hatred for a terrorist group.
The RCMP says Macdonald helped make propaganda material for a terrorist group called Atomwaffen Division.
The group, also known as AWD, is a U.S.-based neo-Nazi organization that was listed as a terrorist entity in Canada in 2021.
A second person was arrested as part of the RCMP’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team investigation but no charges have been laid against them at this point….