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inanna

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Sun Jan 8, 2017, 07:14 PM Jan 2017

Inside Quebec's far right: Radical groups push extreme message

Posted: Jan 08, 2017 5:30 PM ET

On a sunny day in mid-October, about 100 people gathered outside Quebec's National Assembly, chanting their concern that immigration was eroding Quebec culture.

They were members of the various groups that make up the far right in Quebec: Justiciers du peuple, PEGIDA Quebec and Soldats d'Odin among them.

Standing apart from the crowd that Saturday were a dozen members of a group that even the rest of the far right finds radical.

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"Atalante are guys that are a bit more extreme than us," said Katy Latulippe, who heads the Quebec chapter of Soldiers of Odin, a group that has proposed patrolling Quebec City neighbourhoods popular with Muslims.

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/inside-quebec-far-right-alt-right-1.3919964?cmp=rss
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