Copies of a book promoting white nationalist ideology have been placed in community-run library boxes in neighbourhoods in parts of Ottawa, prompting a police investigation.
Christine Young found several copies earlier this month when she decided to check out a few little free libraries near her home in Barrhaven.
Young, a federal government consultant, never expected to repeatedly come across the same book — one that denounces immigration, multiculturalism, advocates for a white ethnostate in which racialized communities would be classified as second class citizens.
I appreciate the intent but who cares what the people that planted this book want, lets focus on reducing radicalization. I’m not sure how informing folks about what books to look out for is going to increase radicalization. The argument that it might cause copy-cat incidents doesn’t really make any sense, it’s not like people are getting radicalized by reading CBC articles, they’re getting radicalized on social media. And I guarantee the title of this book is freely spreading in those toxic circles.
I don’t wanna know the name of the book, Greg.