Longtime neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau was sentenced to seven months after he stole a Pride flag from a neighbour's house and burned it while yelling homophobic slurs.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network
Neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau will spend 76 more days in jail after he accepted a plea deal and admitted guilt to several charges. He was charged with criminal harassment, theft under $5,000, mischief under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order.
According to the courts, Goudreau stole a gay pride flag from his neighbour's porch and burned the flag in his backyard around 2 am. During the burning, he began shouting homophobic slurs. A transgender neighbour reported hearing the commotion and went outside to confront him.
Goudreau called the individual a slur and was arrested shortly after.
“In my view, it is readily apparent from Mr. Goudreau’s actions in burning a Pride flag while screaming “die f****t die” in a public location immediately outside a multi-unit dwelling that his conduct was motivated by bias, prejudice, or hatred,” Justice Stuart Konyer said in court.
“His conduct was vile, reprehensible and harmful to other members of the community, including the victims.”
Goudreau served 128 days of pre-sentence custody after he was arrested on the night of the incident in June 2024. He was already serving a 90-day intermittent sentence for a remarkably similar situation on March 31, 2022, when his upstairs neighbours, a lesbian couple, reported Goudreau circling the apartment building, shouting expletives, slurs, and threats.
“After opening a window and hearing the ‘Heil Hitlers’ and all that, it turned into like the threats of ‘f****t b*****s, I'm gonna kill you,’ and really aggressive yelling,” one of the victims told the Canadian Anti-Hate Network at the time.
Canadian Anti-Hate Network board member Richard Warman filed a criminal complaint against Kevin Goudreau for the March 2022 matter.
Justice Konyer noted the similarities during his sentencing, which included an order for Goudreau to turn over a DNA sample, three years on probation, and a lifetime ban on owning firearms.
“He bears a high level of responsibility for his actions despite him choosing to become intoxicated at the time,” the judge added, saying “His rehabilitation is speculative at best.”
Due to a high likelihood of reoffending the courts declined to apply a conditional sentence in favour of holding him in custody for the 210 days total. Calling the sentence the “low end” of the possible jail terms available, Konyer said that Goudreau’s choice to plead guilty and the “notoriously harsh and inhumane conditions” at the Central East Correctional Facility resulted in a more lenient sentence.
Goudreau was also warned if he broke probation again his sentence would “not be measured in days.”
Konyer declined to place limitations on Goudreau’s ability to wear clothes or symbols related to hate movements or limit his expression.
“Mr Goudreau appears to be a sad, hate-filled man. His conduct is pathetic. I cannot change his way of thinking by court order,” the justice said.
Goudreau founded (and is the only known member of) the Canadian Nationalist Front and has been an active member of the far-right, neo-Nazi, and skinhead scenes in Canada since at least 1993. His track record, even among his peers, has been less than stellar.
Some of the earliest available photos of him from this time show a teenaged Goudreau bloodied after a violent confrontation with alleged members of the Hammerskin Nation.
The CNF goals, according to a blog run by Goudreau, is to “preserve our heritage,culture and traditional values by reforms to reflect our true Canadian core identity,” while calling for a “moratorium on all immigration,stopping third world immigration,a new immigration policy for a return to Canada's traditional ethnic demographics of Euro-Canadian pioneer settlers and Natives.”
Most recently, he made headlines for a series of social media posts in 2019 that encouraged people to murder members of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, journalists, and government workers. The police chose not to press charges. CAHN applied for, and was granted, a peace bond. Goudreau was instructed to remain at least 200 metres away from Warman and other CAHN board members for 12 months.
In 2017, Goudreau organized an anti-immigration rally in Peterborough. While granted a permit by the city, only a handful of supporters showed up to attend. Goudreau was not among them.
Who did show up, however, were reportedly upwards of 250 counter-demonstrators.
The court also heard a breakdown by investigators that matched the location of a second video to a former schoolhouse in rural Quebec.
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