The right to protest does not mean anyone can protest about anything, at anytime, anywhere, by any method.
Legal protests pressure for change that serves the interests of the protesters, either for themselves or in their belief it will also benefit society as a whole.
The onus is on the person or persons protesting to read the room of their audience when it comes to their demonstrations, it is not on their audience to read them.
When a country designates an organization as a terrorist entity, it is declaring that allying with that organization may be illegal, depending on one’s activities, and is certainly immoral.
If an organization is on Canada’s list of terrorist entities, then waving their flag or publicly supporting them undermines what, in the view of our duly elected, democratic government, serves the interests of Canada and Canadians.
Here are all 78 terrorist entitles publicly listed by Public Safety Canada (in alphabetical order, names and descriptions are unaltered):
A) Abdallah Azzam Brigades (AAB), Abu Nidal Organization (ANO), Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), Al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB), Al-Murabitoun, Al-Muwaqi’un Bil Dima, Al Qaida, Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), Al Qaida in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Al Shabaab, Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade (AAMB), Al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya (AGAI), Ansar al-Islam (AI), Ansar Dine, Armed Islamic Group (GIA), Aryan Strikeforce, Asbat Al-Ansar (AAA) (The League of Partisans), Atomwaffen Division, Aum Shinrikyo.
B) Blood & Honour (B&H), Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), Boko Haram.
C) Caucasus Emirate, Combat 18 (C18).
E) Ejército de Liberación Nacional (ELN), Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA).
F) Fatemiyoun Division (FD), Front de Libération du Macina, Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC).
G) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Faction of the Hezb-e Islami, Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin (HIG).
H) Hamas (Harakat Al-Muqawama Al-Islamiya) (Islamic Resistance Movement), Haqqani Network, Harakat al-Sabireen (HaS), Harakat ul-Mudjahidin (HuM), HASAM (Harakat Sawa’d Misr), Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hizballah, Hizbul Mujahideen.
I) Indian Mujahideen (IM), International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy – Canada (IRFAN – CANADA), International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF), Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force, Islamic State, Islamic State – Bangladesh, Islamic State – Democratic Republic of the Congo, Islamic State East Asia, Islamic State in the Greater Sahara, Islamic State – Khorasan Province (ISKP), Islamic State in Libya, Islamic State – Sinai Province (ISSP), Islamic State West Africa Province.
J) Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), Jama’at Nusrat Al-Islam Wal-Muslimin, James Mason, Jaysh Al-Muhajirin Wal-Ansar (JMA), Jemaah Islamiyyah (JI).
K) Kahane Chai (Kach), Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
L) Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT), Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
M) Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MOJWA).
P) Palestine Liberation Front (PLF), Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – General Command (PFLP-GC), Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Proud Boys.
R) Russian Imperial Movement.
S) Sendero Luminoso (SL).
T) Taliban, Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), The Base, Three Percenters.
W) World Tamil Movement (WTM).
This information is easily verifiable by doing an online search for “Public Safety Canada currently listed entities.”
The site also provides a brief description of each of these entities, information on their terrorist activities and the alternative names of each organization.
If individuals want to involve themselves in a political movement, a protest, or to otherwise rally behind a particular cause, it is the responsibility of those individuals to be aware of the causes and activities they are supporting, particularly in the case of entities Canada has designated as terrorist organizations.
Not doing so, at a bare minimum, is incredibly unwise.
— Alex Vezina is the CEO of Prepared Canada Corp, teaches Disaster and Emergency Management at York University and is the author of Continuity 101. He can be reached at info@prepared.ca.
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