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The Nationalist Socialist Christian Party (Parti National Social Chrétien), led by
Adrien Arcand, the publisher of Montreal’s Fascist paper Le Combat National and other
anti-Semitic publications such as Le Miroir, Le Goglu, Le Fasciste Canadien, L’Unité
Nationale and Serviam, joined with 1,500 blue shirted Fascists from eight Canadian
provinces in Toronto’s Massey Hall on July 4 and created a new National Unity Party
whose official slogan was “Canada for Canadians” and “King, country, Christianity.”
Fascism appeared to take root among the Quebecois due to lower economic standards of
living when compared with the rest of the Nation. 78 Jews, Arcand maintained, were the
root of “all the evils in the world” through the tentacles of their economic control. 79
He,
like his German counterparts, called for an economic boycott of Jewish businesses and
establishments in order for French Canadians to regain control over the “commercial
[activities] of their own nation.” It was essential for French Canadians to “prosper in
their own land rather than the Jews.” 80
André Laurendeau, of the paper L’Action nationale and Le Devoir, warned,
during a 1933 demonstration of the separatist and nationalist organization Jeune-Canada,
that Jews were on a “Messianic mission” to control the world; a claim reminiscent of the
oft cited and standard anti-Semitic fare, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. 81 Pierre
78 Canadian Jewish Congress Charities Committee National Archives-Collection Guide available from
http://www.cjccc.ca/national_archives/archives/arcguideA.htm; Internet; accessed August 15, 2010; Life,
July 18, 1938, 9; Time, July 18, 1938, 19.
79 Ottawa Citizen, March 2, 1938, 13.
80 Jacques Langlais and David Rome, Jews & French Quebecers: Two Hundred Years of Shared History
(Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1991), 98.
81 Gerald Tulchinsky, Canada’s Jews: A People’s Journey (Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press,
2008), 305. Jeune-Canada was founded in Montreal in 1932 and supported French Canadian nationalism.
Initially composed of university students, such as André Laurendeau, Pierre Danserau and Gérard Filion, its
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