When the ultra-right wing Macdonald-Laurier Institute isn't shilling for weapons manufacturers or going to bat for the pro-Trump cult Falun Gong, it's defending its crusty old racist namesake https://twitter.com/MLInstitute/status/1349020875639681026
It's nice to have a list of 130 prominent racists of the Canadian ruling class, though. I'm going to do some digging!
The second signatory supports ultra-right winger Carlo Maria Viganò who accused Pope Francis of instituting a "homosexual agenda of the New World Order'.
Jonathan Vance also signed! Hey, he just admitted to having advance knowledge of a totally illegal international assassination yesterday
Lawyer, Conservative Party member, climate-change denier and apparent John A MacDonald expert John Ryder-Burbidge
Wouldn't be the MLI without someone from the ultraright Ukrainian Canadian Congress, in this case Bohdan "Bob" Onyschuk
Greg Piasetzki, who writes colonialist apologia at C2C Journal (Manning Foundation front), National Post
Michelene Brunet McDougall, who is both an expert on John A MacDonald and also COVID - signatory to the MLI's anti-COVID letter from May of last year https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/thought-leaders-urge-beyond-lockdown/
Barbara Kay, David Frum: too obvious to mention
Katarina Glozic, Eglinton-Lawrence riding association president for the Conservative Party
Quillette author Christopher Dummitt
Corporate lawyer Lincoln Caylor, co-host of an October virtual meet and greet fundraising event with Erin O'Toole