Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform

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Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform (C-FAR) is a Canadian right-wing organization based in Toronto It was founded in 1979 by Paul Fromm after he had left the neo-Nazi Western Guard. C-FAR became closely linked to Canadian Association for Free Expression (CAFE), which was founded in 1981. The main issues on C-FAR's agenda have been opposition to foreign aid and immigration.

In 1987, the Toronto Star newspaper described C-FAR as part of a "spider web" of rightist radicals. This prompted a reply by Fromm where he protested that description:

In both foreign aid and immigration matters, Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform is doing nothing more radical than urging the government to implement the will of the majority.

They publish a monthly news-letter and the Canadian Immigration Hotline. C-FAR has also published booklets by Kenneth H.W. Hilborn, a history professor at the University of Western Ontario, and the journalists Doug Collins (journalist) (1920-2001) and Peter Brimelow .

Both Hilborn and Brimelow have also been participants in C-FAR's speaking tours. Other speakers sponsored by C-FAR include the historian Wayne Lutton, and the lawyer Ron Leitch, president of the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC).

Apart from the main issues, C-FAR's publications also support white supremacy, gun rights, and a form of environmentalism.

It appears that the activities of C-FAR have decreased after Fromm's problems with the Peel Board of Education began in 1993.

[edit] External links

• C-FAR homepage
• Monday Magazine (Victoria, B.C.):How Hate Spreads A five-part series on C-FAR from 1993.
• Nazis In Suits: Paul Fromm & The Far Right
• The New Generation of Organised Racialism in Canada

[edit] References

• Stanley Barrett: Is God a Racist? The Right Wing in Canada. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987)
• Olivia Ward: "Rightist radicals weave 'spider web' in Canada, Toronto Star, Mar 29, 1987
• Paul Fromm: "Group wants cuts in foreign aid spending", Toronto Star, Apr 23, 1987
• "Fromm ruling raises bar for teachers", Toronto Star, Apr 09, 2002.