For months, Diagolon has promised a new, more selective, members-only organization called Second Sons Canada. A group of them were spotted in Halifax over the weekend.
Peter Smith
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
A gathering of the Second Sons Canada in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Source: Reddit
Outside of the Cenotaph in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, over a dozen men stood in front of the monument for Canada’s fallen soldiers. Gathering on Sunday, March 30, their faces masked in white neck gaiters, thirteen members clumped together while recording video and snapping pictures.
Waving black and maroon flags emblazoned with a modified version of the coat of arms of Canada, this demonstration and photo op marks a public coming out for Second Sons Canada (SSC), a new organization created by influencers from the white nationalist Diagolon network.
Holding a banner reading “Our People Our Home Our Future,” the only visible face among the group is Jeremy MacKenzie, the creator of Diagolon and now SSC.
The group also wore matching black jackets printed with the symbol of the tri-maple leaf.
A website set up for the group describes it as a “fraternal organization that transcends mere politics or social clubs.” The group claims to have chapters in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, and PEI.
While there have been images alleging to show a branch of the group gathered to train in martial arts in Ontario, the Nova Scotia demonstration on Sunday marks the first confirmed sighting of the SSC in public.
"Our birthright has been stolen from us as we are being pushed out of society, academics and the workforce and replaced by foreigners without any roots or connection to the Canadian people," a section of the group’s website reads.
The group is open to Canadian citizens and does not specifically mention race or ethnicity. It does “proudly recognize our history and ancestry,” according to the website. Prospective members who are not Canadian citizens but are “living in Canada as an American, British, Australian, Norwegian, Irish etc,” are told they may submit an application that would be evaluated on a case by case basis.
Those interested in joining the group are also allegedly subject to a background check—including for criminal history, though a criminal record does not always warrant disqualification from membership. There is also a physical requirement, where prospective members must meet a certain physical standard or be relegated to a lower level as a non-voting “reserve.”
The website indicates there is a monthly fee.
The appearance by SSC bears a similarity to protests staged by other nationalist groups that Diagolon has been networking with over the past several years. This includes the National Socialist Movement in Australia and Patriot Front in the United States. Members of Diagolon have conducted interviews with the leadership of both these neo-Nazi organizations.
The reaction to the appearance of the organization outside the monument has been largely negative.
“The cenotaph is a sacred and solemn space—built to honour those who fought and sacrificed for freedom, not just for some, but for all. For a hate group to rally there is an insult to that sacrifice and an attack on the very values Canada stands for,” said Darren Fisher, Member of Parliament for Dartmouth—Cole Harbour, in a Facebook post.
“Hate must have no place in Canada.”
Calling the event a “white supremacist hate rally,” Fisher called on locals and all Canadians to “reject this hate and defend the values that truly make us strong.”
During a live stream on Monday, MacKenzie denied that the appearance was a rally or protest. Fred Wu, a lawyer for MacKenzie, told The Chronicle Herald that the gathering was a photoshoot, evidenced by the cameras seen in some photographs.
“This was not a rally,” Wu is quoted as saying. “They set up numerous cameras and a drone visible in several photos. They arrived and departed inside of 45 minutes.”
On Telegram, MacKenzie’s partner, Morgan Guptill referred to the gathering as a “demo,” short for demonstration.
“Mr. MacKenzie is a social media personality. While some may indeed find my client’s humour and other commentary distasteful, Mr. Fisher’s remarks are defamatory,” Wu reportedly told the Herald, adding that there was no basis to allege MacKenzie or Second Sons Canada are violent or hateful.
“Second Sons Canada is a men’s nationalist club, but not a hate group or a militia of any kind and there is no evidence anywhere to suggest that it is,” Wu is quoted as saying.
“Mr. MacKenzie is the only public-facing member as president. Associates are masked in fear of public threats against them.”
A report by the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism documented multiple instances of MacKenzie and other Diagolon influencers expressing racist sentiment toward South Asian people — including advocating for mass deportations.
MacKenzie has also made violent suggestions of how this should be done.
“Give me some guys and some weapons and we'll fucking get rid of them,” MacKenzie said during a June 2024 live stream. “We'll take them up. Get in the truck, you're going to the airport. ‘Make me.’ Okay, bang. Anybody else? Anybody else not want to go to the airport? Who wants to go to the airport? Show of hands, who wants to go to the airport?”
He added, “I only had to shoot one, see? Easy. And you wanted to keep them here and have thousands of people die over the next ten years. Jeez, what a terrible mathematician you are.”
When Ravi Kahlon, MLA for North Delta and the Minister for Housing in BC, denounced a stop of a live tour of Diagolon influencers—including MacKenzie—in Langley on X, formerly Twitter, MacKenzie replied, “You’re not Canadian.”
Pictures posted by MacKenzie and the three others on the tour showed them wearing clothing from neo-Nazi organizations like the Goyim Defense League.
In a September 2024 episode of his “RageCast,” MacKenzie targets South Asian people, stating “I wish Winston Churchill had genocided your entire race of people.”
“Did you go outside today, did you do anything today? Indians,” he adds.
Later on the same stream he added, “Fuck the Jews, fuck you. Fuck your Holocaust…I wish the fucking Palestinians just overrun and wipe out your entire civilization.”
SSC received praise from neo-Nazi channels on Telegram, with one Hamilton, Ontario-based channel whose admins include leadership of the former Steel City Proud Boys, posting their support.
“Looks as though Jeremy MacKenzie and the 2nd sons [sic] have debuted their activism in Dartmouth. Good for them.”
MacKenzie and other prominent figures in the Diagolon network have teased the coming of the Second Sons over the past year, developing uniforms, symbols, and more for the group.
The demonstration by SSC also follows the deletion in March 2025 of a pay-for-entry chat server Diagolon offered to its fans and supporters. MacKenzie indicated in February that he intended to shutter the chat hosted on the app Telegram.
Access to the chat was available on an annual subscription basis for $50. Ticket holders from their 2024 tour to multiple provinces featuring performances staged by MacKenzie, Alex Vriend, and other influential individuals within Diagolon were also given access as part of their ticket price.
MacKenzie told the private chat that he hoped supporters who intended to make connections and “find like-minded people” had done so.
“Unfortunately, the majority of interactions have been incessant shit posting and spam chatting nonsense which is only enabling and comforting the terminally online people,” MacKenzie wrote in an administrator channel.
“While I don't care if anyone wants to waste their days staring at a screen all day long — I do care that some friends and associates have to volunteer time to stay on top of moderating criminal behaviour, subversion and so on — ultimately for zero benefit.”
Calling this the “third experiment” with trying to establish an online “communal zone,” he says that all three have “amounted to adult daycare.”
Diagolon previously organized a collection of regional groups to help supporters connect to others in the same area. Most of these were shuttered around the end of the convoy in February 2022.
Before that, a chat room connected to MacKenzie’s channel served as a primary discussion space before it was deleted.
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