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Unilateral Declaration Of Independence

When in the course of human affairs it becomes necessary to dissolve the allegiances of government which no longer support the betterment of a people, there is no cause more just than upholding the right to self-determination. The recent 43rd Federal Election has fundamentally demonstrated that this right is not honoured by the current government administration in this country. Under this administration, our constitutional right to assemble peacefully and freely express our policies to the voting public during the most recent election has not been permitted. This denial of service has been ubiquitous and consistent both during and leading up to the general election. As such, it is fair to state that Canada has failed to uphold its democratic mandate. Our ability as a political movement to choose our own destiny and determine our own fate does not exist under these conditions. We therefore, in good faith, can no longer allow this authority, in any capacity, to exercise jurisdiction over our constituency and do, in the name of remedial self-determination, hereby declare our independence.

Self-determination is an innate, fundamental prerogative of any government – especially as it pertains to the availability of a country’s democratic proceedings. This declaration is both necessary and justified in that our self-determination under the Government of Canada is actively suppressed.

Since our federal political party came into existence in 2017, our constitutional rights to assemble peacefully and communicate our policies to Canadian voters has been violated – including after the drop of the writ in the most recent general election. It is essentially impossible to make any attempt at democratic reform when the public commons are inaccessible. There exists not a single exception where our request to host a public event has been fulfilled.

The ability for a federally-sanctioned political party to peacefully assemble and freely express their policies to the voting public during an election is absolutely fundamental to a “free and democratic” society. Yet, our organization has been denied space at publicly-funded institutions as well as permits to host on government property open without charge to members of the public. This is both contradictory to our democracy and contrary to the legal code. To not honour the request of a federal political party to be permitted peaceful assembly and free expression of policies to voters during a general election is contrary to the public interest. Failing to permit our organization to perform such an act represents a violation of the constitutional obligations of our government under the Canadian Charter Of Rights & Freedoms, the Canada Elections Act, the Canadian Bill Of Rights, the Charter of the United Nations, as well as general principles of Common Law.

We have appealed to the necessary agencies (including Her Majesty The Queen) to acknowledge these grievances. At the time of this writing, we have received no effective response or recourse. This administration has demonstrated, beyond reasonable doubt, that they are not willing to uphold our self-determination as a unique nationality. Any government which fails to operate in accordance with its own constitution is a government without merit. As is our Divine Right when the existing authority has proven itself incapable of upholding its self-anointed ‘Supreme Law’, our compliance is null and void.

In accordance with Article 61 of our Magna Carta, we choose not to follow any government down a path which leads to desolation.

We choose to uphold the principle of justice in the lands we were born.

We reserve our right to defend ourselves and our property.

We reserve our right to establish a money system free from the practices of usury.

We will continue to uphold our self-determination by disbanding the chains of obedience toward the existing authority.

We invite all those who identify with our political vein of thought to join us.

We declare the creation of a New State, whose basis of authority be derived from the consent of the governed, operating under the provisions embodied in our constitution.

In appealing to the Supreme World Council for the righteousness of our intentions, and according to the Will of the Creator, we await, with unwavering faith, the ratification of this declaration in its fullest expression.

In accordance with the inalienable right to self-determination, and the assurance that our actions have justly demonstrated unlawful subjugation of our constituency, we, the Canadian Nationalist Party, for the salvation of our nation, hereby declare our independence!

Mr. Travis M. Patron
Leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party

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Electoral Violation In Canada
Elections Canada – Canadian Nationalist Party

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Case Law:

Constitutional Law – Charter of Rights – Fundamental Freedoms (Section 2) – Right to freedom of peaceful assembly

Constitutional Law – Charter of Rights – Fundamental Freedoms (Section 2) – Right to freedom of expression

6:03 MEANING OF “FREE AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY”

R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103, D:0017, at p. 136, Dickson C.J., for the Court, stated that the phrase “free and democratic society”

… refers the Court to the very purpose for which the Charter was originally entrenched in the Constitution: Canadian society is to be free and democratic. The Court must be guided by the values and principles essential to a free and democratic society which I believe embody, to name but a few, respect for the inherent dignity of the human person, commitment to social justice and equality, accommodation of a wide variety of beliefs, respect for cultural and group identity, and faith in social and political institutions which enhance the participation of individuals and groups in society.

Since Section 1 constitutionally guarantees the rights and freedoms which follow in the Charter, “any s. 1 inquiry must be premised on an understanding that the impugned limit violates constitutional rights and freedoms – rights and freedoms which are part of the supreme law of Canada”: R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103, D:0017, at p. 135.

The phrase “free and democratic society” is significant – “the underlying values and principles of a free and democratic society are the genesis of the rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Charter and the ultimate standard against which a limit on a right or freedom must be shown, despite its effect, to be reasonable and demonstrably justified”: R. v. Oakes, at p. 136.

The Supreme Court of Canada set out its basic test for determining whether a legislative provision is justified in R. v. Oakes. According to the Court, s. 1 imposes a “stringent standard of justification”. A stringent standard of justification must be adopted because of the meaning of “free and democratic society” (see para. 6:03) and because the justification analysis is being undertaken after the Court has found that constitutionally guaranteed rights have been violated. The test adopted by the majority of the Court in Oakes is as follows:

(1) the objective, which the legislation in issue is designed to advance, must be “of sufficient importance to warrant overriding a constitutionally protected right or freedom”; and

(2) a three-fold proportionality test must be satisfied:

(a) the legislation must be rationally connected to the achievement of the objective in question – it must not be arbitrary, unfair or based on irrational considerations;

(b) the legislation should impair as little as possible the right or freedom in question; and

(c) there must be a proportionality between the effects of the legislation which is responsible for limiting the Charter right or freedom and the objective which has been identified as having sufficient importance. (Oakes, at pp. 138-40)

The issue of justification is to be assessed “objectively” and not from the standpoint of the legislators.

The onus of proving that a limit on a right or freedom is reasonable and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society rests upon the party seeking to uphold the limitation: Hunter v. Southam Inc., [1984] 2 S.C.R. 145, D:0003, at p. 169; R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103, D:0017, at pp. 136-7. In Oakes, Dickson C.J. referred to a “presumption” that the rights and freedoms are guaranteed unless the party invoking s. 1 can bring itself within the “exceptional” criteria which justify their being limited.

In Canadian Human Rights Commission v. Taylor, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 892, D:0154, McLachlin J., held that the deleterious effects of the impugned provision outweighed the importance of the objective. She stated (at pp. 968-9):

The significance of the infringement of the right at issue in this case is most serious. The limitation touches expression which may be relevant to social and political issues. Free expression on such matters has long been regarded as fundamental to the working of a free democracy and to the maintenance and preservation of our most fundamental freedoms. The right to express oneself freely on such matters is not lightly to be trammeled; a limitation on such expression must be proportionate to the evil and sensitive to the need to preserve as much freedom of expression as may be compatible with suppressing that evil.”

In McKinney v. University of Guelph, [1990] 3 S.C.R. 229, D:0147, La Forest J. Stated: (at pp. 280-1):

“The matter must, as earlier cases have held, involve a test of proportionality. In cases of this kind, the test must be approached in a flexible manner. The analysis should be functional, focusing on the character of the classification in question, the constitutional and societal importance of the interests adversely affected, the relative importance to the individuals affected of the benefit of which they are deprived, and the importance of the state interest.”

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Electoral Violation In Canada

The recent 43rd Federal Election has demonstrated that the democratic channel has been made unavailable to the Canadian Nationalist Party. It has also demonstrated that for our constituency there is no self-determination available under the current government administration.

The most fundamental aspect of our democratic rights is violated when a federally-sanctioned political party is not permitted to peacefully assemble and freely express its policies to the voting public during an active election. This is a most obvious indication that our government is failing to host ‘free and fair’ elections. This is not how an election is to be conducted and we demand accountability from this government authority.

This violation is only the most pronounced and fundamental example that Canada’s democratic institutions are illegitimate. For a full disclosure of our denial of service, read our statement The Emperor Wears No Clothes.

The writ was dropped on September 11th, 2019 for the 43rd Federal Election. On September 24th, the Canadian Nationalist Party requested from the City Of Saskatoon a permit to assemble at Civic Square. This request was denied for allegations that our organization was ‘denominational’ in nature. This denial of service came during an active election, when our political party was seeking to inform voters and nominate candidates for the upcoming election (election day was held October 21st).

The City Of Saskatoon describes Civic Square as “an area available to the public to gather in a peaceful and respectful manner”. Despite not violating any hate speech legislation nor inciting violence at public gatherings, our request to use this space during an election to communicate our policies and nominate candidates was denied.

Read the initial request: Canadian Nationalist Party Request – September 24th
Read the response: City Of Saskatoon Response – September 27th

The Canadian Nationalist Party has also filed a civil lawsuit against the City Of Saskatoon for violating their constitutional rights.

Since this transgression of our democracy has come to light, Elections Canada has launched an investigation into the matter.

The public must be notified in a timely manner that there has been a violation of the Canada Elections Act.

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The Emperor Wears No Clothes

The recent 43rd Federal Election has fundamentally demonstrated that our right to self-determination, as Canadian Nationalists, is being suppressed by the current administration. Under these circumstances, our ability to assemble publicly and speak our policies to Canadian voters has, and continues to be, denied to us.

The right to self-determination represents the ability for a people to form their own state and choose their own government. Under the current conditions bestowed upon us, this is essentially impossible, as our ability to assemble publicly and communicate our policies as a federal party has been prohibited to us before and during general elections. Therefore, we will not acknowledge the authority of the Federal/Provincial/Municipal Governments involved given that they have violated these constitutional rights as well as suppressed our self-determination as a unique nationality.

Since we began our campaign in 2017, our candidates have been physically attacked, have faced a concerted attempt to sabotage our efforts to attain federal registration as a political party, a systemic effort to censor our ability to communicate policies to the voting public, and a coordinated effort to tarnish our reputation from a number of media outlets.

We have been falsely accused of violating hate speech legislation. The same people who file trademark infringement complaint with the Federal Police Force then use their media outlets to claim law enforcement is “going after” us, when in actually, no crime has been committed whatsoever.

Public institutions such as City Halls, University Campuses, Public Libraries, and Convention Centers which operate from our tax dollars have been prohibited to us (since 2017) for reasons never justified.

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society.

Fundamental Freedoms:
2. Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms:

(b) freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press and other media of communication;
(c) freedom of peaceful assembly

The institutions in Canada which have prohibited us from accessing them without reason include, but are not limited to:

Every one of these institutions receives operating grants from various levels of government. These operating grants are enabled by the tax codes we as citizens abide by. Canadian citizens abide by tax laws because we trust that these institutions, which we fund, will be made available to us when we wish to assemble and express ourselves. We have supporters and members within our party who have been criminally charged and spent 1+ years in prison due to not complying with these tax codes – yet the beneficiaries of this type of taxation cannot even provide us a channel to determine our own fate.

This desire to utilize public resources and exercise our constitutional rights has been violated consistently and without reason, including after the drop of the writ during the 43rd Federal Election as we were actively nominating candidates. The exclusion of our political party from public spaces and prohibition from booking publicly-funded venues has directly affected our ability to both nominate candidates and inform the public of our policies. Even today, we consistently come across Canadians who have never heard of our party. We believe this ignorance of us as a viable political option would be less pronounced if we were able to access the same democratic channels as other political parties.

The City Of Saskatoon has consistently denied us a permit to assemble despite the fact they have granted one to competing political parties in between our requests for access. The stated reason of denial has been that our organization is ‘denominational’ in nature. We were denied a permit after the writ had dropped for the 43rd Federal Election. This came at a time when we were working to nominate candidates and promote our policies. However, our prohibition from public spaces make a democratic victory unrealistic.

On July 3rd, 2017, we announced our intention to host an event at the University Of Toronto to discuss the nationalist movement in Canada. Roughly a month later, we were outright denied space. The University Of Toronto claims the ideology of Canadian nationalism poses a “significant safety risk to their students” despite gleefully hosting Bolshevik Communists on a regular basis.

After the Ontario Provincial Government mandated free speech at universities in 2019, only 1 event was not allowed to go ahead: ours. The Canadian Nationalist Party made a follow up request to the University Of Toronto in 2019, which was again denied. It seems the idea that Canada is a unique nation is an idea too dangerous for the public to handle.

The Toronto Public Library refuses to grant us space on the grounds that advocating “maintaining our European-descended demographic majority” is discriminatory and therefore unacceptable. It seems as though if you are someone who believes Canada should maintain the people who founded the country, you are simply not allowed to use the library …

Both the Toronto Metro Convention Center & TCU Place cannot honour our booking request due to concerns that our opposition might vandalize their property. These are issues outside our control, but our tax revenues do indeed go towards funding law enforcement that is tasked with keeping the peace at such events. When even basic services such as law enforcement keeping the peace are not respected, the financial return on our tax dollars is non-existent.

A number of the venues which we request space from justify denying us access by referencing “media reports” which negatively portray our party. One such example is a recent event we held in Winnipeg at the Belgian Club where local media presented a blatantly one-sided narrative of the event and the masked hooligans who attempted to disrupt it. After these hooligans were escorted out of the venue by Winnipeg police, our event proceeded as planned, giving a presentation on the need for immigration reform. These “media reports” cannot be used as grounds to disenfranchise federal parties from campaigning, as they lack any accurate or balanced reporting of our activities. What is not reported out of all these cancellations and denials-of-service is the time, money, and energy that people contribute to this project. For example, on several occasions we have had these bookings cancelled mere hours before they were scheduled to begin. This means that people travelling from out-of-province are left with nothing but wasted resources for their efforts. This also does damage to the reputation of our party, as the people who make the effort to attend the first time but were cancelled on, will more than likely not make the effort the second time around.

To date, our constituency has violated no hate speech legislation and initiated no violence at public gatherings. At one such public gathering in 2019, our candidate for Scarborough-Guildwood was blind-side attacked by a masked hooligan. This attack sparked an altercation in the Eaton Center which the media has then used to suggest our membership is prone to violent acts. Let me be clear: self-defense is not a crime. We will defend ourselves and our viewpoints wherever and whenever necessary. For this act, we require no permission.

From the very outset of our announcement in November, 2017 to “be on the ballot” for the 43rd Federal Election we have experienced systemic discrimination on the basis of nothing more than our political stance of Canadian nationalism. This denial of the Canadian Nationalist Party, a federally-sanctioned political party, to receive publicly-funded services demonstrates that our government is engaging in taxation without representation. We have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Canada does not have a legitimate democratic channel for citizens to exercise their self-determination.

The message to us is clear: the current government in Canada is opposed to the nationhood of our country and does not support the constitutional rights of a federal political party to assemble on public property and communicate their policies to Canadian voters. This is a political ideology that resonates with millions of citizens, yet our government continues to deny our requests for public permits. It seems in Canada, we have (quite literally) no rights to speak of.

These types of transgressions are intolerable to us and paint the picture of a democratic channel that is made available only to political narratives which support the “post-national” dictatorship our current Prime Minister has vocally endorsed.

If the injustices and complete lack of self-determination afforded to us by the current government administration is not corrected, our very livelihood will suffer.

We encourage supporters of our party to join us in non-compliance. We have no interest nor obligation to obey an authority so brutish it prosecutes and collects tax revenues from the populace while simultaneously violating their constitutional rights. Not permitting a federal party to assemble publicly and communicate its policies to voters only demonstrates that our democracy in its current state is an illusion.

We will continue informing foreign governments of the fraudulent and unconstitutional elections Canada is hosting.

If the Canadian Government prohibits a federal political party from exercising their ability to assemble and speak then it only follows that that federal party prohibit the Canadian Government from speaking on its behalf.


Travis Patron
Leader of the Canadian Nationalist Party

The principle of self-determination is prominently embodied in Article I of the Charter of the United Nations. Earlier it was explicitly embraced by US President Woodrow Wilson, by Lenin and others, and became the guiding principle for the reconstruction of Europe following World War I. The principle was incorporated into the 1941 Atlantic Charter and the Dumbarton Oaks proposals which evolved into the United Nations Charter. Its inclusion in the UN Charter marks the universal recognition of the principle as fundamental to the maintenance of friendly relations and peace among states. It is recognized as a right of all peoples in the first article common to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights which both entered into force in 1976. 1 Paragraph 1 of this Article provides:

All peoples have the right to self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.

The right to self-determination of peoples is recognized in many other international and regional instruments, including the Declaration of Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States adopted b the UN General Assembly in 1970, 2, the Helsinki Final Act adopted by the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) in 1975, 3, the African Charter of Human and Peoples’ Rights of 1981, 4, the CSCE Charter of Paris for a New Europe adopted in 1990, 5, and the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action of 1993. 6, It has been affirmed by the International Court of Justice in the Namibia case 7, the Western Sahara case 8, and the East Timor case 9, in which its erga omnes character was confirmed. Furthermore, the scope and content of the right to self-determination has been elaborated upon by the UN Human Rights Committee 10, and the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination 11, and numerous leading international jurists.

That the right to self-determination is part of so called hard law has been affirmed also by the International Meeting of Experts for the Elucidation of the Concepts of Rights of Peoples brought together by UNESCO from 1985 to 1991, 12, it came to the conclusion that (1) peoples’ rights are recognized in international law; (2) the list of such rights is not very clear, but also that (3) hard law does in any event include the right to self-determination and the right to existence, in the sense of the Genocide Convention.

The inclusion of the right to self-determination in the International Covenants on Human Rights and in the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, referred to above, emphasizes that self-determination is an integral part of human rights law which has a universal application. At the same time, it is recognized that compliance with the right of self-determination is a fundamental condition for the enjoyment of other human rights and fundamental freedoms, be they civil, political, economic, social or cultural.

– UNPO: Self-Determination In International Law

We encourage supporters of this message to print and distribute this flyer in their communities, campuses, and high visibility locations: [PDF] statement-of-non-compliance