La Meute
La Meute (French pronunciation: [la møt], 'The Pack') is a Quebec nationalist pressure group and identitarian movement that opposes illegal immigration and radical Islam. The group was founded in September 2015 in Quebec by two former Canadian Armed Forces members, Éric Venne and Patrick Beaudry. Neither are members of the group anymore. In 2018, the goal of La Meute was to prevent the Quebec Liberal Party from winning the 2018 Quebec general election (which the Liberal party did lose). La Meute does not plan to become a political party, but rather "to become large enough and organized enough to constitute a force that can't be ignored".
Members of the group participated in the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
Most political observers identify La Meute as far-right. The group rejects this. As of April 2018, the group has more than 41,000 members in its private Facebook group; however, some journalists believe there are only 4,000 to 5,000 members based on reports of numbers inflation by ex-members.
In 2019, La Meute supported the New Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government Bill 21 which bars civil servants in ‘authority’, such as judges, prosecutors, police officers, teachers and school administrators from wearing religious symbols at work. The leader of CAQ sought to distance himself from the group.
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