Canada will list the Proud Boys movement as a terrorist group
Ottawa, Canada (CNN)Canada announced Wednesday that the 
Proud Boys will be designated as a terrorist entity along with 12 other groups. 
The  Proud Boys will be deemed an "ideologically motivated violent extremist  group" along with three others: Atomwaffen Division, The Base and  Russian Imperial Movement, the government said in a news release.
"Their  violent actions and rhetoric are fueled by white supremacy,  anti-Semitism, racism, homophobia, Islamophobia and misogyny, and  unfortunately, often in combination of all of the above," said Public  Safety Minister Bill Blair at a news conference Wednesday. 
Government  officials say the move will help Canada freeze the groups' financial  assets and criminalize financing, training and recruitment for all such  groups.
When  asked about the new terrorist designation for the Proud Boys, Blair  said that the events of January 6 on the US Capitol did initiate a  "political response" in Canada, but that the decision was not political.  
"And  as disturbing and concerning as those images and those events were,  they also provided law enforcement and our intelligence services with a  trove of new information in which quite frankly, many of these groups  revealed themselves," said Blair, adding that Canada's decision was  based on "evidence, intelligence and the law." 
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This is excellent news.
 
			
		
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