The arrest of an armed Manitoba Canadian Forces reservist comes in the immediate aftermath of a protest on Parliament Hill during #CanadaDay. Hundreds of far-right protesters descended on #Ottawa to calling for the prime minister to be prosecuted. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/07/02/rcmp-monitoring-ongoing-incident-near-rideau-hall.html

25 minutes before breaching the fence at Rideau Hall, Corey Hurren made a post on his company's Facebook account directing people to look up "Event 201." Event 201 is a conspiracy theory that suggests Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is behind COVID-19. 2/

According to his LinkedIn and Facebook page, Hurren's is a Canadian Ranger (a sub-component of the Canadian Armed Forces reserve that provides a military presence in sparsely settled northern, coastal, and isolated areas) and a veteran of the Royal Canadian Artillery.

Another example of a well-established trend. Ondrej Hajn & I, have identified hundreds of cases of #military personnel in #NATO states being disciplined for their participation in/ideological alignment with far-right groups, including more than a dozen Canadian cases since 2018.