The Heritage Front Affair
This section reviews the wide-ranging allegations that a
CSIS informant took actions that were designed to discredit the
Reform Party of Canada. The Reform Party asked us to investigate
these allegations and to answer a large number of associated
questions. To respond adequately to the Reform Party's request, we
have had to conduct an unusually broad investigation and have
explored all leads which came to our attention. We have attempted
to provide as complete and as accurate an account of what took
place as the available information allows.
On April 6, 1991, the Reform Party of Canada, at its
Fourth Annual Convention in Saskatoon decided to expand into
Ontario and the Maritimes. The decision would be ratified by a
referendum of the members the following month. Reform Party (RP)
officials had already been at work in Ontario to raise public
interest in the Party and they were setting up interim riding
associations.[1]
Clifford Fryers, Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of
the Reform Party of Canada explained that when the Party began to
move into Ontario, a constituency association could be formed in
that province with only 40 members.[2] The Party feared take-over
attempts in its early years, Fryers said, and they had been
concerned about "pockets" of Western extremists, such as Terry Long
in Caroline, Alberta.[3]
Fryers emphasized to the Review Committee that the tenets
of the Reform Party are that all people are created equal and that
the values of the white supremacists are not acceptable to the
Party.[4]
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Security Intelligence Review Committee
December 9, 1994
VII. Reform Party