Tim Burns is a supporter of Diagolon/Second Sons and last week he attended a campaign rally for Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in Saint John, New Brunswick.
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| Tim Burns' Facebook profile with the Second Sons logo as his Avatar. |
The campaign staff didn't appreciate him live streaming, and asked that he stop. It didn't seem like he wanted to be there the first place.
Before leaving Tim said that he was a bigot and white supremacist. He said it sarcastically but we all
know better by this point.
Tim Burns has met many other far-right influencers, some of whom have also attended conservative campaign events.
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| Chris Dacey holding a Diagolon flag in front of Parliament. |
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| Chris Dacey shaking hands with Pierre Poilievre at a campaign event in Kingston, Ontario. | | | | |
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| Chris Dacey attending a Conservative rally in Nepean, Ontario. |
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| Wellington Regular Carl Grant who once spit on Marco Mendicino posing with Pierre Poilievre. |
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| Rob Primerano shaking hands with Pierre Poilievre in 2023. |
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| Tim Burns posing with "Freedom" convoy organizer Chris Barber. |
I don't want to appear as though I am criticizing the CPC for allowing these people into their events. It's unlikely they would know who most of them are. Another example is white nationalist
Leigh Stuart who showed up to meet Pierre Poilevre in order to troll him. Most Diagolon supporters don't support the CPC.
That said I was surprised that in August 2022 Jeremy Mackenzie was able to
take pictures with Pierre Poilievre. This was prior to Jeremy making statements about
sexually assaulting Pierre Poilievre's wife, but it was after he had been in the
news for
multiple arrests. You would think that at least one staffer could have recognized him.
It's not like the CPC isn't capable of denying people access to their events. Recently Pierre Poilievre was in Winnipeg and
Shadoe Davis was denied because he was labeled "a known agitator". Shadoe recently
promoted the Nazi propaganda documentary series Europa: The Last Battle. He has also interviewed
Jeremy Mackenzie.
Last week
Jeremy Mackenzie decided to take his largely online
Diagolon project offline and held his first rally in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This evolution of Diagolon is known as Second Sons, which has been advertised as a
Diagolon branded
Active Club.
After pictures surfaced of the rally and news
articles were written about it Jeremy and his lawyer Fred Wu
refuted the claims that it was a rally and wanted it referred to as a photo-op, even though as the Canadian Anti-Hate Network
pointed out Jeremy's girlfriend
Morgan Guptill referred to the gathering as a "demo".
Afterward Jeremy discussed the rally/photo-op/play-date/circle-jerk on his live stream. He claims that Second Sons members are trying to stay anonymous due to "credible threats" against them. This is an about face from his previous position that no one should be
anonymous on the internet, no matter how much he
threatens them.
Jeremy isn't happy that Darren Fisher the Liberal MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour spoke out against him and his group, referring to them as a "far-right hate group". Jeremy thinks that may constitute defamation even though I could probably write a dissertation based on
how true that description is.
Ironically in the same stream he mocks people for not liking his "mean mouth sounds".
On Sunday Halifax residents who were upset about the Neo-Nazi event in their city held an anti-hate rally. Despite the rainy weather they well outnumbered the Second Sons'.... whatever event. Jeremy, Morgan and a couple guys with cameras decided to show up and give them a hard time and were eventually chased off. Being a Neo-Nazi is much easier on the internet.
Jeremy claims the he "happily adopted a defensive fighting stance to engage the mob" but.....
... it looked like that. I'll let others be the judge.
