Fascism was the petit‐bourgeois movement that the ruling class promoted to institutional power in the face of probable proletarian revolution. Soon it concentrated finance capital into its hands, and used every asset available to smash workers’ organizations, defeat the proletariat, and prevent class consciousness. It was, in short, capitalism’s last line of defence.

While anticommunism is certainly systemic in Canada, there hasn’t really been a need for it to reach the extremes that Fascism reached in Europe; there is little unionization, and the minority of active communists in Canada are simply too few and too weak to invoke the bourgeois state’s rage. Neoliberalism works well enough for the ruling class (at least for now), so mutating into neofascism would be unnecessary and too risky.

Canada’s abuse of indigenous people, its concealment of slavery, and its police corruption are important points to bring up, but those are more symptoms of colonialism in general rather than Fascism specifically. The Kingdom of Italy pre‐1922 and the Second Reich exhibited similar phenomena.

But the Dominion of Canada has been complicit in profascism and protecting former Axis personnel, and it has committed atrocities similar to those by anticommunist empires like the Kingdom of Italy and the German Reich, so your sentiments are certainly easy to understand. And as a student of feminism, my personal rule is that however the oppressed choose to respond to their oppression is something that should preferably not be policed, so I only explain disagreements like this one when people invite me. The Canadian state may not qualify as fascist, but that would make it no less worthy of our destruction either.