The Canadian Heritage Alliance (CHA) is a Canadian white supremacist group founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario.[1][2] 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.[3]
Its leader, Melissa Guille, denies that the organization is a hate group, and contends that the group and its website are concerned about "keeping Canada for Canadians" and "removing the anti-white sentiment in society."[4] A 2001 report from B'nai Brith Canada says the CHA "seems to be an attempt to fill the void left by the diminishing Heritage Front."[5][6] Staff Sgt. Gary Askin of the Ontario Provincial Police argued in the same year that the CHA was "promoting white supremacy under the guise of white pride."[7]
In 2001, the CHA tried to gain exposure by joining the adopt-a-road program to clean debris along highways near Cambridge, Ontario. The Waterloo Region soon expelled the CHA from the program.[1][2] In 2004, the CHA achieved notoriety for distributing flyers in Fredericton, New Brunswick on Canada Day. One pamphlet complained about Canadian immigration policy and another featured a picture of a white woman, with the title "Love Your Race."[8] The group has adopted the 2004 New Orleans Protocol for promoting White nationalism.[9]
The CHA and Melissa Guille are co-defendants in a federal human rights complaint for Internet hate filed in 2004 by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman. The complaint alleges that material on the website would likely expose homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, First Nations, blacks, Arabs, other non-whites, and Roma to hatred or contempt in violation of s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Website content engaged in Holocaust denial, and argued that whites who have relationships with black men deserve to die, that Jews are the literal children of Satan, and that non-white immigration into Europe is worse than the Black Plague that struck during the Middle Ages. [10] The hearing began in 2006 and is scheduled to resume in September 2007.[11]