Paul Fromm
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Frederick Paul Fromm known as Paul Fromm, is a Canadian
neo-Nazi
and Holocaust denier, based in Port Credit, Ontario
. He hosts a radio show on the Stormfront web site and has ties to former Ku Klux Klan
members David Duke
and Don Black. He has been described by national media as "one of Canada's most notorious white supremacists".
family. His mother, Marguerite Michaud, was of French Canadian
descent while his father, Frederick William Fromm, was of German
and Irish
descent. His father enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy
during World War II
. After the war, he qualified as a chartered accountant
and worked in Colombia for an oil company. After Paul was born the family returned to Ontario where his father found work as an accountant with the provincial ministry of highways.
's in the early 1960s but changed his mind after coming across the writings of Barry Goldwater
.
In 1967, as a student at the University of Toronto
's St. Michael's College
, Paul Fromm co-founded the Edmund Burke Society
with Don Andrews
, Leigh Smith and Al Overfield
; and also founded its student wing "Campus Alternative". The Edmund Burke Society was a right-wing
anti-communist
group that agitated against prominent left-wing movements. The group would often disrupt, sometimes violently, left-wing rallies and events.
The group's main focus was opposition to the New Left
and other left-wing tendencies that the Edmund Burke Society associated with communism
. In 1970, the group disrupted a speech by William Kunstler
, resulting in the Chicago Seven
's lawyer drenching Fromm with a pitcher of water. A melee between Edmund Burke Society members and Kunstler's supporters ensued, and Fromm was knocked unconscious to the floor.
With the support of members of the Edmund Burke Society, Fromm was elected president of the Ontario Social Credit Party in 1971 and was able to have other EBS members elected to the party's executive. Three Social Credit candidates in the 1971 Ontario election
were avowed "Burkers".
As the far left movement waned, Edmund Burke Society members turned their attention to issues of race and immigration and became increasingly attracted to white supremacist
theories. In February 1972, the group renamed itself the Western Guard
. In 1972, after having lost the Social Credit Party presidency to Dr. James McGillvray, Fromm led a successful attempt by the Western Guard to take over the Ontario wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada
. The national executive of the national Social Credit Party declared membership in the Western Guard "incompatible" with membership in the party and this led national Social Credit leader Réal Caouette
to place the Ontario organization under trusteeship in order to counter Fromm's activities.
In May 1972, Fromm was the opening speaker at a Western Guard banquet honouring Robert E. Miles
, a former Ku Klux Klan
leader who became a leading ideologue in the Christian Identity
movement. Fromm, Overfield and several others resigned from the Western Guard in May 1972, immediately after the Toronto Sun
published an article on the group, which included information about the banquet. Fromm's departure left the leadership of the Western Guard in the hands of Don Andrews. Fromm claimed in a 1973 letter to the Toronto Star that he left the Western Guard "because of a growing radicalization of its politics and the irresponsibility of some of its activities." Later, he denied ever having been a member of the Guard saying he "never had any connection" with the organization. When confronted with his 1973 letter, he dismissed it as "a matter of semantics".
Board of Education from 1974 until his dismissal in 1997. He temporarily tried to distance himself from groups that were visibly linked to explicitly racist
and neo-Nazi beliefs. He founded "Countdown", which led to the creation of three organizations that attempted to make far-right views palatable to the mainstream. Fromm was elected as a Catholic school trustee in 1976, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1974, and served on the Metro Toronto Separate School Board until he was defeated in his bid for re-election two years later. His father, Fred, was also defeated in his 1978 bid for a seat on the board.
In 1976, he founded the Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform
(C-FAR), which opposes foreign aid to Third World
nations. The organization also deals with other issues, including crime and punishment, multiculturalism
and immigration. It sponsors lectures by far right individuals and publishes pamphlets and books, mostly about race and immigration. In 1981, Fromm founded Canadian Association for Free Expression
(CAFE), in opposition to the Canadian Human Rights Commission
. CAFE has been active defending the rights of accused antisemites, racists and Holocaust deniers
against prosecution under hate crime
and human rights
legislation. Another group he founded was Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, which advocates reduced immigration
, and opposes immigration by non-whites. These three groups still exist today and are still led by Fromm. Their membership and mandates overlap, and they are essentially a single organization. Fromm's leadership of these groups has given him some access to the mainstream media, such as radio talk shows and newspapers.
In the late 1970s, Fromm also founded Canadian Friends of Rhodesia
to support the white minority rule regime of Ian Smith
and his Rhodesian Front
. In the mid to late 1980s, Fromm's organizations were involved in advocacy on behalf of South Africa
's apartheid
regime, and opposing the movement to impose economic sanctions on the country.
Fromm attempted to enter mainstream political activity by joining the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
. He was elected treasurer of PC Metro, a network of 31 Toronto
PC riding association
s on April 15, 1981. He angered many people and embarrassed both the federal and Ontario Progressive Conservatives
when a profile in the Globe and Mail quoted him as saying that breeding a "supreme race
" for intelligence was a good idea, and as calling for Vietnam
ese refugees to be sent to "desert islands" off the Philippines
and Indonesia
rather than be accepted into Canada where they would "upset the racial balance".
His comments resulted in Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis
being asked in the legislature whether he is willing "to tolerate such neo-fascist, if not fascist, ideas within the Conservative Party." Federal Progressive Conservative immigration critic Chris Speyer
said Fromm's remarks were "entirely his and certainly don't represent the views of the party or the caucus." Federal PC president Peter Blaikie
asked Fromm to resign from the local executive, telling the press on April 30, 1981: "It's quite clear that that article, accurate or inaccurate, sets out a position which is clearly at variance with that of the party," and that the issue "has created some difficulty and embarrassment for the party."
In 1983, Fromm was an active supporter of right-wing Member of Parliament John A. Gamble
's unsuccessful bid to win the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives
. Fromm's work with Gamble continued beyond his unsuccessful leadership bid, and included work in the World Anti-Communist League
. In 1993, Gamble was rejected as a candidate for the Reform Party of Canada
because of his long association with Fromm and other racist activists.
In the late 1980s, Fromm was an active member of the Reform Party, but was essentially expelled in October 1988 when leader Preston Manning
sent Fromm a letter asking him to "dissociate" himself from the party, following complaints by party members about the racist tenor of a speech Fromm made at a Reform Party gathering. In the 1988 federal election
, Fromm ran as a candidate for the Confederation of Regions Party in the riding
of Mississauga East
, and received 288 votes.
In 1997, he was a candidate for the public school board in Peel Region
. He received 827 votes (10.39% of ballots cast), coming in last of four candidates. His name was the first on the ballot, which may have increased his vote total due to the primacy effect in a four-way contest amongst independents.
events, including a celebration of Adolf Hitler
's birthday. A video surfaced of him addressing the rally and referring to Canadian fascist
John Ross Taylor
as a "hero". Taylor was one of two Canadian Nazis
interned by the government during World War II
. The video shows Fromm standing beside a Nazi flag during the Heritage Front's "Martyr's Day". The rally included shouts from the audience of "Sieg Heil!", "white power", "Hail The Order
!" and "nigger
, nigger, nigger, out out out". Fromm, a high school English teacher at the time, was reprimanded by the school board after videos of him speaking at white supremacist rallies, came to light in 1992. He was transferred to an adult education centre by the board in 1993 pending the outcome of an investigation into his activities and then fired by the school board in 1997.
In 2000, a published report alleged that developer Martin Weiche, a former leader of the Canadian Nazi Party, was one of Fromm's major financial backers. Fromm has shared a stage with Holocaust denier
David Irving
, and has organized rallies in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel
. B'nai Brith legal counsel Anita Bromberg has said "Fromm is the one who has put himself out there most directly as supporting Zündel. He looks as though he's waiting in the wings." In 2004, Fromm was associated with David Duke
's efforts to unite white nationalists
with the New Orleans Protocol. In the 2000s, he has tried to revive the display of the Canadian Red Ensign
flag.
In January 2005, Fromm defended himself at a disciplinary hearing of the Ontario College of Teachers against charges including "failure to maintain professional standards; not complying with college regulations and bylaws; disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional and/or unbecoming conduct; and practising while in a conflict of interest." Following three days of hearings, further deliberations were postponed. The hearing resumed in the spring of 2007 and on October 31, 2007, the college rendered its ruling stripping Fromm of his licence to teach in the province of Ontario
.
Fromm has acted as an advocate for far right
activists who have been called before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
(CHRT). Among those Fromm has represented is Glenn Bahr
, the co-founder and former leader of Western Canada For Us
, and Terry Tremaine
, a former University of Saskatchewan
mathematics lecturer. In 2006, he represented the Canadian Heritage Alliance
at a CHRT hearing in Toronto, and supported John Beck of the group BC White Pride at a CHRT hearing in Penticton, British Columbia
.
Fromm has been described as a mentor to younger "far-right extremists" such as Melissa Guille
and Jason Ouwendyk
and as a "'senior player' in the neo-Nazi movement in Canada." He identifies himself as an advocate for "white nationalists
".
Fromm has repeatedly spoken at events sponsored Thomas Robb's Ku Klux Klan faction, the Knights Party. In 2007, he was a keynote speaker at the group's White Christian Revival gathering.
On March 21, 2009, Fromm openly participated in a "White Pride" march organized by the Aryan Guard
, a neo-Nazi gang in Calgary, Alberta.
On August 19, 2006, Fromm's Port Credit, Ontario
home was besieged by dozens of anti-fascist
youths, who surrounded the townhouse; challenging Fromm to come outside. Although he reportedly remained inside approximately half a dozen neo-Nazis were present outside his home. Over 50 police officers were on call to protect Fromm and his supporters. The area was plastered in flyers advertising Fromm's home address and far-right political affiliations. The protest ended without incident.
On his way to an April 19, 2007 Ontario College of Teachers hearing into his conduct, Fromm was in a scuffle with Jewish Defense League
(JDL) members in an elevator. Protesters claimed that Fromm shoved them, but Fromm asserts that the JDL members lunged at him. Police arrested two protesters, charging them with assault, assault police and obstructing.
In October 2007, the Canadian House of Commons
unanimously passed a resolution banning Fromm and Alexan Kulbashian from the Canadian Parliament buildings after they attempted to hold a press conference in the parliamentary press theatre. The resolution read: "That this House order that Alexan Kulbashian and Paul Fromm be denied admittance to the precincts of the House of Commons during the present session to preserve the dignity and integrity of the House."
were sued by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman
for libelling the anti-racist activist in various online posts. On November 23, 2007, Ontario Superior Court Justice Monique Métivier ruled in Warman's favour ordering Fromm to pay Warman a total of $30,000 in damages and to post full retractions on all the websites on which he posted the defamatory comments within 10 days. Métivier found that Fromm posted statements about Warman "either knowing the fundamental falseness of the accusations he levelled at Mr. Warman, or being reckless as to the truth of these." Métivier added that "The steady diet of diatribe and insults, couched in half-truths and omissions, all lead up to the finding of malice such that the defamatory statements are not protected by the defence of fair comment."
On December 15, 2008, the Ontario Court of Appeal
upheld the original $30,000 defamation judgment against Fromm and added a $10,000 penalty in legal costs. Fromm posted a financial appeal complaining that "We are $17,500 behind in our legal bills - to say nothing of the possible $40,000 debt, if this judgment stands." Richard Warman responded to news of the appeal court's ruling by saying it "sends the message that those who try to use the cloak of free speech to poison other people's reputations through lies and defamation do so at their own peril."
The Supreme Court of Canada
rejected Fromm's application to appeal the judgement on April 23, 2009.
. The Southern Poverty Law Center
criticised Fox for identifying Fromm only as a "Free Speech Activist".
refugees arriving on the MV Sun Sea. In August he led a small protest in Calgary
with members of the Aryan Guard
outside of Immigration Minister
Jason Kenney
's constituency office which "so terrified the receptionist that she locked the door and would not accept Mr. Fromm's delivery of a letter until police arrived." He also organized a small protest with Doug Christie
in Esquimalt, British Columbia
where the boat was docked and also led small pickets later in the month in Ottawa and Hamilton.
in the October 25, 2010 municipal election and ran on an anti-immigration platform. Fromm reportedly made racist and homophobic comments during his campaign and displayed white supremacist and Holocaust denial literature at his campaign tables. He claimed that train stations in the city looked "like flippin' Calcutta" and that the city had been "paved over with ticky tacky houses that are mostly filled with East Indians" and is also quoted saying "I wake up in the morning and I feel great. I'm high on hate." On election day, Fromm came in ninth with 917 votes which represented 0.65% of the total vote.
as the candidate of the far right Western Block Party
against immigration minister
Jason Kenney
on a platform advocating a freeze in immigration. Kenney was re-elected, winning over 76% of the vote, while Fromm received around 0.3%.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
neo-Nazi
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....
and Holocaust denier, based in Port Credit, Ontario
Port Credit, Ontario
Port Credit is found at the mouth of the Credit River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, within the southcentral area of the city of Mississauga...
. He hosts a radio show on the Stormfront web site and has ties to former Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
members David Duke
David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan an American activist and writer, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. He was also a former candidate in the Republican presidential primaries in 1992, and in the Democratic presidential primaries in...
and Don Black. He has been described by national media as "one of Canada's most notorious white supremacists".
Family
Fromm was born in Bogota, Colombia and grew up in Etobicoke in a devout CatholicCatholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
family. His mother, Marguerite Michaud, was of French Canadian
French Canadian
French Canadian or Francophone Canadian, , generally refers to the descendents of French colonists who arrived in New France in the 17th and 18th centuries...
descent while his father, Frederick William Fromm, was of German
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
and Irish
Irish people
The Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
descent. His father enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy
Royal Canadian Navy
The history of the Royal Canadian Navy goes back to 1910, when the naval force was created as the Naval Service of Canada and renamed a year later by King George V. The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the three environmental commands of the Canadian Forces...
during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. After the war, he qualified as a chartered accountant
Chartered Accountant
Chartered Accountants were the first accountants to form a professional body, initially established in Britain in 1854. The Edinburgh Society of Accountants , the Glasgow Institute of Accountants and Actuaries and the Aberdeen Society of Accountants were each granted a royal charter almost from...
and worked in Colombia for an oil company. After Paul was born the family returned to Ontario where his father found work as an accountant with the provincial ministry of highways.
Political activism
Fromm was an admirer of Fidel CastroFidel Castro
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz is a Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008. He also served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba from the party's foundation in 1961 until 2011...
's in the early 1960s but changed his mind after coming across the writings of Barry Goldwater
Barry Goldwater
Barry Morris Goldwater was a five-term United States Senator from Arizona and the Republican Party's nominee for President in the 1964 election. An articulate and charismatic figure during the first half of the 1960s, he was known as "Mr...
.
In 1967, as a student at the University of Toronto
University of Toronto
The University of Toronto is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, situated on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution of higher learning in Upper Canada...
's St. Michael's College
University of St. Michael's College
The University of St. Michael's College is a college of the University of Toronto, founded in 1852 by the Congregation of St. Basil of Annonay, France. While mainly an undergraduate college for liberal arts and sciences, St. Michael's retains its Roman Catholic affiliation through its postgraduate...
, Paul Fromm co-founded the Edmund Burke Society
Edmund Burke Society
The Edmund Burke Society was a far right organization formed by Paul Fromm, Don Andrews, Al Overfield and Leigh Smith in 1967 at the University of Toronto. The group was anti-communist and promoted conservative values...
with Don Andrews
Don Andrews
Donald Clarke Andrews is a Canadian white supremacist. He is also the leader of the neo-Nazi Nationalist Party of Canada and a perennial candidate for mayor of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.-Early years:...
, Leigh Smith and Al Overfield
Al Overfield
Alan Overfield is a Canadian white supremacist.He was a founding member of the Edmund Burke Society established by Paul Fromm, Don Andrews, and Leigh Smith. He was also part of an attempted takeover by Fromm of the Ontario wing of the national Social Credit Party of Canada...
; and also founded its student wing "Campus Alternative". The Edmund Burke Society was a right-wing
Right-wing politics
In politics, Right, right-wing and rightist generally refer to support for a hierarchical society justified on the basis of an appeal to natural law or tradition. To varying degrees, the Right rejects the egalitarian objectives of left-wing politics, claiming that the imposition of equality is...
anti-communist
Anti-communism
Anti-communism is opposition to communism. Organized anti-communism developed in reaction to the rise of communism, especially after the 1917 October Revolution in Russia and the beginning of the Cold War in 1947.-Objections to communist theory:...
group that agitated against prominent left-wing movements. The group would often disrupt, sometimes violently, left-wing rallies and events.
The group's main focus was opposition to the New Left
New Left
The New Left was a term used mainly in the United Kingdom and United States in reference to activists, educators, agitators and others in the 1960s and 1970s who sought to implement a broad range of reforms, in contrast to earlier leftist or Marxist movements that had taken a more vanguardist...
and other left-wing tendencies that the Edmund Burke Society associated with communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
. In 1970, the group disrupted a speech by William Kunstler
William Kunstler
William Moses Kunstler was an American self-described "radical lawyer" and civil rights activist, known for his controversial clients...
, resulting in the Chicago Seven
Chicago Seven
The Chicago Seven were seven defendants—Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, David Dellinger, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, John Froines, and Lee Weiner—charged with conspiracy, inciting to riot, and other charges related to protests that took place in Chicago, Illinois on the occasion of the 1968...
's lawyer drenching Fromm with a pitcher of water. A melee between Edmund Burke Society members and Kunstler's supporters ensued, and Fromm was knocked unconscious to the floor.
With the support of members of the Edmund Burke Society, Fromm was elected president of the Ontario Social Credit Party in 1971 and was able to have other EBS members elected to the party's executive. Three Social Credit candidates in the 1971 Ontario election
Ontario general election, 1971
The Ontario general election of 1971 was held on October 21, 1971, to elect the 117 members of the 29th Legislative Assembly of Ontario of the Province of Ontario, Canada....
were avowed "Burkers".
As the far left movement waned, Edmund Burke Society members turned their attention to issues of race and immigration and became increasingly attracted to white supremacist
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
theories. In February 1972, the group renamed itself the Western Guard
Western Guard Party
The Western Guard Party was a white supremacist group based in Toronto, Canada. It evolved out of the far-right anti-Communist Edmund Burke Society that had been founded in 1967 by Don Andrews, Paul Fromm, Leigh Smith and Al Overfield.Andrews became the dominant figure in the EBS, and relaunched...
. In 1972, after having lost the Social Credit Party presidency to Dr. James McGillvray, Fromm led a successful attempt by the Western Guard to take over the Ontario wing of the Social Credit Party of Canada
Social Credit Party of Canada
The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative-populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform...
. The national executive of the national Social Credit Party declared membership in the Western Guard "incompatible" with membership in the party and this led national Social Credit leader Réal Caouette
Réal Caouette
David Réal Caouette was a Canadian politician from Quebec. He was a Member of Parliament and leader of the Social Credit Party of Canada and founder of the Ralliement des créditistes...
to place the Ontario organization under trusteeship in order to counter Fromm's activities.
In May 1972, Fromm was the opening speaker at a Western Guard banquet honouring Robert E. Miles
Robert E. Miles
Robert E. "Pastor Bob " Miles was a White Supremacist leader from Michigan.A major "dualist" religious leader, Miles allied himself with various groups that constituted the racist and anti-Semitic political-religious movement known as Christian Identity, including Aryan Nations...
, a former Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as the Klan, is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically...
leader who became a leading ideologue in the Christian Identity
Christian Identity
Christian Identity is a label applied to a wide variety of loosely affiliated believers and churches with a racialized theology. Many promote a Eurocentric interpretation of Christianity.According to Chester L...
movement. Fromm, Overfield and several others resigned from the Western Guard in May 1972, immediately after the Toronto Sun
Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language daily tabloid newspaper published in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is known for its daily Sunshine Girl feature and for what it sees as a populist conservative editorial stance.-History:...
published an article on the group, which included information about the banquet. Fromm's departure left the leadership of the Western Guard in the hands of Don Andrews. Fromm claimed in a 1973 letter to the Toronto Star that he left the Western Guard "because of a growing radicalization of its politics and the irresponsibility of some of its activities." Later, he denied ever having been a member of the Guard saying he "never had any connection" with the organization. When confronted with his 1973 letter, he dismissed it as "a matter of semantics".
Involvement in mainstream politics
Fromm graduated from university with a Master's degree in English and an education degree. He worked as a school teacher with the Peel RegionRegional Municipality of Peel, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of Peel is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of Toronto: the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. The entire region is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner...
Board of Education from 1974 until his dismissal in 1997. He temporarily tried to distance himself from groups that were visibly linked to explicitly racist
Racism
Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
and neo-Nazi beliefs. He founded "Countdown", which led to the creation of three organizations that attempted to make far-right views palatable to the mainstream. Fromm was elected as a Catholic school trustee in 1976, after an unsuccessful attempt in 1974, and served on the Metro Toronto Separate School Board until he was defeated in his bid for re-election two years later. His father, Fred, was also defeated in his 1978 bid for a seat on the board.
In 1976, he founded the Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform
Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform
Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform is one of a number of groups run by neo-Nazi leader Paul Fromm. It was founded in 1976 by Fromm after he had left the white supremacist Western Guard organization. C-FAR became closely linked to Canadian Association for Free Expression , another one of Fromm's...
(C-FAR), which opposes foreign aid to Third World
Third World
The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either capitalism and NATO , or communism and the Soviet Union...
nations. The organization also deals with other issues, including crime and punishment, multiculturalism
Multiculturalism
Multiculturalism is the appreciation, acceptance or promotion of multiple cultures, applied to the demographic make-up of a specific place, usually at the organizational level, e.g...
and immigration. It sponsors lectures by far right individuals and publishes pamphlets and books, mostly about race and immigration. In 1981, Fromm founded Canadian Association for Free Expression
Canadian Association for Free Expression
The Canadian Association for Free Expression is a political organization based in Canada that campaigns for free speech. It is often accused of having ties to the racist far-right....
(CAFE), in opposition to the Canadian Human Rights Commission
Canadian Human Rights Commission
The Canadian Human Rights Commission is a quasi-judicial body that was established in 1977 by the government of Canada. It is empowered under the Canadian Human Rights Act to investigate and try to settle complaints of discrimination in employment and in the provision of services within federal...
. CAFE has been active defending the rights of accused antisemites, racists and Holocaust deniers
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...
against prosecution under hate crime
Hate crime
In crime and law, hate crimes occur when a perpetrator targets a victim because of his or her perceived membership in a certain social group, usually defined by racial group, religion, sexual orientation, disability, class, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender, gender identity, social status or...
and human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
legislation. Another group he founded was Canada First Immigration Reform Committee, which advocates reduced immigration
Immigration reduction
Immigration reduction refers to a movement in the United States that advocates a reduction in the amount of immigration allowed into the country. Steps advocated for reducing the numbers of immigrants include advocating stronger action to prevent illegal entry and illegal immigration, and...
, and opposes immigration by non-whites. These three groups still exist today and are still led by Fromm. Their membership and mandates overlap, and they are essentially a single organization. Fromm's leadership of these groups has given him some access to the mainstream media, such as radio talk shows and newspapers.
In the late 1970s, Fromm also founded Canadian Friends of Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Rhodesia , officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state located in southern Africa that existed between 1965 and 1979 following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence from the United Kingdom on 11 November 1965...
to support the white minority rule regime of Ian Smith
Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979...
and his Rhodesian Front
Rhodesian Front
The Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the...
. In the mid to late 1980s, Fromm's organizations were involved in advocacy on behalf of South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
's apartheid
History of South Africa in the apartheid era
Apartheid was a system of racial segregation enforced by the National Party governments of South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority 'non-white' inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and white supremacy and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained...
regime, and opposing the movement to impose economic sanctions on the country.
Fromm attempted to enter mainstream political activity by joining the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada
The Progressive Conservative Party of Canada was a Canadian political party with a centre-right stance on economic issues and, after the 1970s, a centrist stance on social issues....
. He was elected treasurer of PC Metro, a network of 31 Toronto
Toronto
Toronto is the provincial capital of Ontario and the largest city in Canada. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. A relatively modern city, Toronto's history dates back to the late-18th century, when its land was first purchased by the British monarchy from...
PC riding association
Riding association
In Canadian politics a riding association , officially called an electoral district association is the basic unit of a political party, that is it is the party's organization at the level of the electoral district, or "riding"...
s on April 15, 1981. He angered many people and embarrassed both the federal and Ontario Progressive Conservatives
Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario
The Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario , is a right-of-centre political party in Ontario, Canada. The party was known for many years as "Ontario's natural governing party." It has ruled the province for 80 of the years since Confederation, including an uninterrupted run from 1943 to 1985...
when a profile in the Globe and Mail quoted him as saying that breeding a "supreme race
White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief, and promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds. The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social and political dominance by whites.White supremacy, as with racial...
" for intelligence was a good idea, and as calling for Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
ese refugees to be sent to "desert islands" off the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
and Indonesia
Indonesia
Indonesia , officially the Republic of Indonesia , is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising approximately 13,000 islands. It has 33 provinces with over 238 million people, and is the world's fourth most populous country. Indonesia is a republic, with an...
rather than be accepted into Canada where they would "upset the racial balance".
His comments resulted in Progressive Conservative premier Bill Davis
Bill Davis
William Grenville "Bill" Davis, was the 18th Premier of Ontario, Canada, from 1971 to 1985. Davis was first elected as the MPP for Peel in the 1959 provincial election where he was a backbencher in Leslie Frost's government. Under John Robarts, he was a cabinet minister overseeing the education...
being asked in the legislature whether he is willing "to tolerate such neo-fascist, if not fascist, ideas within the Conservative Party." Federal Progressive Conservative immigration critic Chris Speyer
Chris Speyer (politician)
Chris Speyer was a Progressive Conservative party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was a criminal lawyer by career.He represented the Ontario riding of Cambridge where he was first elected in 1979...
said Fromm's remarks were "entirely his and certainly don't represent the views of the party or the caucus." Federal PC president Peter Blaikie
Peter Blaikie
Peter Macfarlane Blaikie is a prominent Canadian lawyer and a fluently bilingual statesman from Quebec.-Genealogy:Blaikie was born in Shawinigan, Mauricie on May 10, 1937. He was the son of Kenneth Guy "Bill" Blaikie and Mary Petrie Black....
asked Fromm to resign from the local executive, telling the press on April 30, 1981: "It's quite clear that that article, accurate or inaccurate, sets out a position which is clearly at variance with that of the party," and that the issue "has created some difficulty and embarrassment for the party."
In 1983, Fromm was an active supporter of right-wing Member of Parliament John A. Gamble
John A. Gamble
John Albert Gamble was a far-right Canadian politician. He was elected to the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1979 federal election and re-elected in the 1980 election representing the riding of York North.He was a candidate at the 1983 Progressive Conservative...
's unsuccessful bid to win the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservatives
Progressive Conservative leadership convention, 1983
The 1983 Progressive Conservative leadership election was held on June 11, 1983 in Ottawa, Ontario to elect a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada...
. Fromm's work with Gamble continued beyond his unsuccessful leadership bid, and included work in the World Anti-Communist League
World Anti-Communist League
The World League for Freedom and Democracy is an international anti-communist political organization founded in 1966 in Taipei, Republic of China , under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek. It was founded with the aim of opposing Communism around the world through "unconventional" methods...
. In 1993, Gamble was rejected as a candidate for the Reform Party of Canada
Reform Party of Canada
The Reform Party of Canada was a Canadian federal political party that existed from 1987 to 2000. It was originally founded as a Western Canada-based protest party, but attempted to expand eastward in the 1990s. It viewed itself as a populist party....
because of his long association with Fromm and other racist activists.
In the late 1980s, Fromm was an active member of the Reform Party, but was essentially expelled in October 1988 when leader Preston Manning
Preston Manning
Ernest Preston Manning, CC is a Canadian politician. He was the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance...
sent Fromm a letter asking him to "dissociate" himself from the party, following complaints by party members about the racist tenor of a speech Fromm made at a Reform Party gathering. In the 1988 federal election
Canadian federal election, 1988
The Canadian federal election of 1988 was held November 21, 1988, to elect members of the Canadian House of Commons of the 34th Parliament of Canada. It was an election largely fought on a single issue: the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement ....
, Fromm ran as a candidate for the Confederation of Regions Party in the riding
Electoral district (Canada)
An electoral district in Canada, also known as a constituency or a riding, is a geographical constituency upon which Canada's representative democracy is based...
of Mississauga East
Mississauga East
Mississauga East was a federal and provincial electoral district in Ontario, Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 to 2003, and in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 2007. It was located in the city of Mississauga.This riding was created in 1987 from...
, and received 288 votes.
In 1997, he was a candidate for the public school board in Peel Region
Regional Municipality of Peel, Ontario
The Regional Municipality of Peel is a regional municipality in Southern Ontario, Canada. It consists of three municipalities to the west and northwest of Toronto: the cities of Brampton and Mississauga, and the town of Caledon. The entire region is part of the Greater Toronto Area and the inner...
. He received 827 votes (10.39% of ballots cast), coming in last of four candidates. His name was the first on the ballot, which may have increased his vote total due to the primacy effect in a four-way contest amongst independents.
Open links to fascists
In the 1990s, Fromm spoke at several Heritage FrontHeritage Front
The Heritage Front was a Canadian neo-Nazi white supremacist organization founded in 1989 and disbanded around 2005.The Heritage Front maintained a telephone message line with a different editorial each day. The voice on the hotline was Gary Schipper...
events, including a celebration of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
's birthday. A video surfaced of him addressing the rally and referring to Canadian fascist
Fascism
Fascism is a radical authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to rejuvenate their nation based on commitment to the national community as an organic entity, in which individuals are bound together in national identity by suprapersonal connections of ancestry, culture, and blood...
John Ross Taylor
John Ross Taylor
John Ross Taylor was a Canadian fascist political activist and party leader prominent in white nationalist circles....
as a "hero". Taylor was one of two Canadian Nazis
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
interned by the government during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
. The video shows Fromm standing beside a Nazi flag during the Heritage Front's "Martyr's Day". The rally included shouts from the audience of "Sieg Heil!", "white power", "Hail The Order
The Order (group)
The Order, also known as the Brüder Schweigen or Silent Brotherhood, was an organization active in the United States between 1983 and 1984...
!" and "nigger
Nigger
Nigger is a noun in the English language, most notable for its usage in a pejorative context to refer to black people , and also as an informal slang term, among other contexts. It is a common ethnic slur...
, nigger, nigger, out out out". Fromm, a high school English teacher at the time, was reprimanded by the school board after videos of him speaking at white supremacist rallies, came to light in 1992. He was transferred to an adult education centre by the board in 1993 pending the outcome of an investigation into his activities and then fired by the school board in 1997.
In 2000, a published report alleged that developer Martin Weiche, a former leader of the Canadian Nazi Party, was one of Fromm's major financial backers. Fromm has shared a stage with Holocaust denier
Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial is the act of denying the genocide of Jews in World War II, usually referred to as the Holocaust. The key claims of Holocaust denial are: the German Nazi government had no official policy or intention of exterminating Jews, Nazi authorities did not use extermination camps and gas...
David Irving
David Irving
David John Cawdell Irving is an English writer,best known for his denial of the Holocaust, who specialises in the military and political history of World War II, with a focus on Nazi Germany...
, and has organized rallies in support of Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel
Ernst Zündel
Ernst Christof Friedrich Zündel is a German Holocaust denier and pamphleteer who was jailed several times in Canada for publishing literature which "is likely to incite hatred against an identifiable group" and for being a threat to national security, in the United States for overstaying his visa,...
. B'nai Brith legal counsel Anita Bromberg has said "Fromm is the one who has put himself out there most directly as supporting Zündel. He looks as though he's waiting in the wings." In 2004, Fromm was associated with David Duke
David Duke
David Ernest Duke is a former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan an American activist and writer, and former Republican Louisiana State Representative. He was also a former candidate in the Republican presidential primaries in 1992, and in the Democratic presidential primaries in...
's efforts to unite white nationalists
White nationalism
White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people. White separatism and white supremacism are subgroups within white nationalism. The former seek a separate white nation state, while the latter add ideas from social Darwinism and...
with the New Orleans Protocol. In the 2000s, he has tried to revive the display of the Canadian Red Ensign
Canadian Red Ensign
The Canadian Red Ensign is the former flag of Canada, used by the federal government though it was never adopted as official by the Parliament of Canada. It is a British Red Ensign, featuring the Union Flag in the canton, defaced with the shield of the Coat of Arms of Canada.-History:The Red Ensign...
flag.
In January 2005, Fromm defended himself at a disciplinary hearing of the Ontario College of Teachers against charges including "failure to maintain professional standards; not complying with college regulations and bylaws; disgraceful, dishonourable, unprofessional and/or unbecoming conduct; and practising while in a conflict of interest." Following three days of hearings, further deliberations were postponed. The hearing resumed in the spring of 2007 and on October 31, 2007, the college rendered its ruling stripping Fromm of his licence to teach in the province of Ontario
Ontario
Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....
.
Fromm has acted as an advocate for far right
Far right
Far-right, extreme right, hard right, radical right, and ultra-right are terms used to discuss the qualitative or quantitative position a group or person occupies within right-wing politics. Far-right politics may involve anti-immigration and anti-integration stances towards groups that are...
activists who have been called before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal is an administrative tribunal established in 1977 by the Canadian Human Rights Act. It is directly funded by the Parliament of Canada and is independent of the Canadian Human Rights Commission which refers cases to it for adjudication under the Act.The Tribunal...
(CHRT). Among those Fromm has represented is Glenn Bahr
Glenn Bahr
Glenn Bahr is a Canadian neo-Nazi and was one of the founders of Western Canada For Us , a now defunct racist group based in Edmonton, Alberta...
, the co-founder and former leader of Western Canada For Us
Western Canada For Us
Western Canada For Us was a short-lived Alberta-based white nationalist group founded by Glenn Bahr and Peter Kouba in early 2004. The WCFU was formally dissolved on May 11, 2004, four days after Bahr's residence in Edmonton, Alberta, was raided by members of the Edmonton Hate Crimes division...
, and Terry Tremaine
Terry Tremaine
Terrence Cecil Tremaine is the founder and national director of the National-Socialist Party of Canada. He is a White Nationalist organizer who has posted on White Nationalist web forums such as Stormfront and other websites using the screen name “mathdoktor99,” and on other websites as...
, a former University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan
The University of Saskatchewan is a Canadian public research university, founded in 1907, and located on the east side of the South Saskatchewan River in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. An "Act to establish and incorporate a University for the Province of Saskatchewan" was passed by the...
mathematics lecturer. In 2006, he represented the Canadian Heritage Alliance
Canadian Heritage Alliance
The Canadian Heritage Alliance is a Canadian white supremacist group founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario. Detective Terry Murphy of London's Hate Crime Unit alleged that the group had links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge-based Tri-City Skins.Its leader, Melissa...
at a CHRT hearing in Toronto, and supported John Beck of the group BC White Pride at a CHRT hearing in Penticton, British Columbia
Penticton, British Columbia
Penticton is a city in the Okanagan Valley of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, situated between Okanagan and Skaha Lakes. Its 2010 population was 37,721 .-Name origin:...
.
Fromm has been described as a mentor to younger "far-right extremists" such as Melissa Guille
Melissa Guille
Melissa Guille is a white supremacist and the leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance. Founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, the group, which has been characterised as white supremacist, was accused of having links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener based Tri-City Skins.In 2001,...
and Jason Ouwendyk
Jason Ouwendyk
Jason Ouwendyk was a figure in Canadian white-supremacist movement. He is the former spokesman of the Northern Alliance. Ouwendyk assumed the role with the Northern Alliance soon after group founder Raphael Bergmann left the group....
and as a "'senior player' in the neo-Nazi movement in Canada." He identifies himself as an advocate for "white nationalists
White nationalism
White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racial definition of national identity for white people. White separatism and white supremacism are subgroups within white nationalism. The former seek a separate white nation state, while the latter add ideas from social Darwinism and...
".
Fromm has repeatedly spoken at events sponsored Thomas Robb's Ku Klux Klan faction, the Knights Party. In 2007, he was a keynote speaker at the group's White Christian Revival gathering.
On March 21, 2009, Fromm openly participated in a "White Pride" march organized by the Aryan Guard
Aryan Guard
The Aryan Guard is an Alberta-based neo-Nazi group with members primarily located in the city of Calgary. It was founded in 2006 and was reported disbanded in 2009 as a result of internal conflict including pipe bombing attacks...
, a neo-Nazi gang in Calgary, Alberta.
Public opposition
Fromm's Alternative Forum meetings have been the targets of demonstrations, and have been disrupted and occasionally shut down by protesters.On August 19, 2006, Fromm's Port Credit, Ontario
Port Credit, Ontario
Port Credit is found at the mouth of the Credit River on the north shore of Lake Ontario, within the southcentral area of the city of Mississauga...
home was besieged by dozens of anti-fascist
Anti-fascism
Anti-fascism is the opposition to fascist ideologies, groups and individuals, such as that of the resistance movements during World War II. The related term antifa derives from Antifaschismus, which is German for anti-fascism; it refers to individuals and groups on the left of the political...
youths, who surrounded the townhouse; challenging Fromm to come outside. Although he reportedly remained inside approximately half a dozen neo-Nazis were present outside his home. Over 50 police officers were on call to protect Fromm and his supporters. The area was plastered in flyers advertising Fromm's home address and far-right political affiliations. The protest ended without incident.
On his way to an April 19, 2007 Ontario College of Teachers hearing into his conduct, Fromm was in a scuffle with Jewish Defense League
Jewish Defense League
The Jewish Defense League is a Jewish organization whose stated goal is to "protect Jews from antisemitism by whatever means necessary"...
(JDL) members in an elevator. Protesters claimed that Fromm shoved them, but Fromm asserts that the JDL members lunged at him. Police arrested two protesters, charging them with assault, assault police and obstructing.
In October 2007, the Canadian House of Commons
Canadian House of Commons
The House of Commons of Canada is a component of the Parliament of Canada, along with the Sovereign and the Senate. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body, consisting of 308 members known as Members of Parliament...
unanimously passed a resolution banning Fromm and Alexan Kulbashian from the Canadian Parliament buildings after they attempted to hold a press conference in the parliamentary press theatre. The resolution read: "That this House order that Alexan Kulbashian and Paul Fromm be denied admittance to the precincts of the House of Commons during the present session to preserve the dignity and integrity of the House."
Libel case
Fromm and his Canadian Association for Free ExpressionCanadian Association for Free Expression
The Canadian Association for Free Expression is a political organization based in Canada that campaigns for free speech. It is often accused of having ties to the racist far-right....
were sued by Ottawa lawyer Richard Warman
Richard Warman
Richard Warman is an Ottawa-based lawyer who is active in human rights law. Warman worked for the Canadian Human Rights Commission from July 2002 until March 2004...
for libelling the anti-racist activist in various online posts. On November 23, 2007, Ontario Superior Court Justice Monique Métivier ruled in Warman's favour ordering Fromm to pay Warman a total of $30,000 in damages and to post full retractions on all the websites on which he posted the defamatory comments within 10 days. Métivier found that Fromm posted statements about Warman "either knowing the fundamental falseness of the accusations he levelled at Mr. Warman, or being reckless as to the truth of these." Métivier added that "The steady diet of diatribe and insults, couched in half-truths and omissions, all lead up to the finding of malice such that the defamatory statements are not protected by the defence of fair comment."
On December 15, 2008, the Ontario Court of Appeal
Ontario Court of Appeal
The Court of Appeal for Ontario is headquartered in downtown Toronto, in historic Osgoode Hall....
upheld the original $30,000 defamation judgment against Fromm and added a $10,000 penalty in legal costs. Fromm posted a financial appeal complaining that "We are $17,500 behind in our legal bills - to say nothing of the possible $40,000 debt, if this judgment stands." Richard Warman responded to news of the appeal court's ruling by saying it "sends the message that those who try to use the cloak of free speech to poison other people's reputations through lies and defamation do so at their own peril."
The Supreme Court of Canada
Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada is the highest court of Canada and is the final court of appeals in the Canadian justice system. The court grants permission to between 40 and 75 litigants each year to appeal decisions rendered by provincial, territorial and federal appellate courts, and its decisions...
rejected Fromm's application to appeal the judgement on April 23, 2009.
Fox News interview
On August 4, 2008, Fox News interviewed Fromm, in relation to the prosecution of right-wing Canadian author Mark SteynMark Steyn
Mark Steyn is a Canadian-born writer, conservative-leaning political commentator, and cultural critic. He has written five books, including America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It, a New York Times bestseller...
. The Southern Poverty Law Center
Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an American nonprofit civil rights organization noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups; legal representation for victims of hate groups; monitoring of alleged hate groups, militias and extremist organizations; and educational programs that...
criticised Fox for identifying Fromm only as a "Free Speech Activist".
Opposition to Tamil refugees
In 2010, Fromm organized small protests across the country against the admission of a boat load of TamilTamil people
Tamil people , also called Tamils or Tamilians, are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada,...
refugees arriving on the MV Sun Sea. In August he led a small protest in Calgary
Calgary
Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...
with members of the Aryan Guard
Aryan Guard
The Aryan Guard is an Alberta-based neo-Nazi group with members primarily located in the city of Calgary. It was founded in 2006 and was reported disbanded in 2009 as a result of internal conflict including pipe bombing attacks...
outside of Immigration Minister
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (Canada)
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government department responsible for immigration, refugee and citizenship issues, Citizenship and Immigration Canada...
Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney
Jason T. Kenney, PC, MP is Canada's current Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. He has represented the riding of Calgary Southeast in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997....
's constituency office which "so terrified the receptionist that she locked the door and would not accept Mr. Fromm's delivery of a letter until police arrived." He also organized a small protest with Doug Christie
Doug Christie (lawyer)
Douglas Hewson "Doug" Christie, Jr. is a Canadian lawyer and far-right political activist based in Victoria, British Columbia.-Career:...
in Esquimalt, British Columbia
Esquimalt, British Columbia
The Township of Esquimalt is a municipality at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. It is bordered to the east by the provincial capital, Victoria, to the south by the Strait of Juan de Fuca, to the west by Esquimalt Harbour and Royal Roads, to the northwest by the...
where the boat was docked and also led small pickets later in the month in Ottawa and Hamilton.
Mississauga mayoral campaign
Fromm was a candidate for mayor of Mississauga, OntarioMississauga, Ontario
Mississauga is a city in Southern Ontario located in the Regional Municipality of Peel, and in the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. With an estimated population of 734,000, it is Canada's sixth-most populous municipality, and has almost doubled in population in each of the last two decades...
in the October 25, 2010 municipal election and ran on an anti-immigration platform. Fromm reportedly made racist and homophobic comments during his campaign and displayed white supremacist and Holocaust denial literature at his campaign tables. He claimed that train stations in the city looked "like flippin' Calcutta" and that the city had been "paved over with ticky tacky houses that are mostly filled with East Indians" and is also quoted saying "I wake up in the morning and I feel great. I'm high on hate." On election day, Fromm came in ninth with 917 votes which represented 0.65% of the total vote.
2011 federal election
In the 2011 federal election, Fromm stood in Calgary SoutheastCalgary Southeast
Calgary Southeast is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. The district is in the southeast part of the City of Calgary...
as the candidate of the far right Western Block Party
Western Block Party
The Western Block Party is a political party in Canada founded in 2005 by Doug Christie. The party became officially registered on December 29, 2005....
against immigration minister
Minister of Citizenship and Immigration (Canada)
The Minister of Citizenship and Immigration is the Minister of the Crown in the Canadian Cabinet who is responsible for overseeing the federal government department responsible for immigration, refugee and citizenship issues, Citizenship and Immigration Canada...
Jason Kenney
Jason Kenney
Jason T. Kenney, PC, MP is Canada's current Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism. He has represented the riding of Calgary Southeast in the Canadian House of Commons since 1997....
on a platform advocating a freeze in immigration. Kenney was re-elected, winning over 76% of the vote, while Fromm received around 0.3%.