Terry Long, the 40-year-old self-styled leader of the Canadian section of the Church of the Aryan Nation, has announced that he will set up a camp in the province of Alberta.
Scheduled for completion this fall on his family’s land 120 miles northwest of Calgary, the camp will have a bunkhouse for 20 people. It will train the campers in the “church’s” philosophy, said Long, who calls himself Canada’s High Aryan Warrior Priest.
Church leaders in Calgary say they will fight Long’s planned compound. The local Jewish community will not attempt to stop the camp’s establishment, said Judith Goldsand, president of the Jewish Federation of Edmonton, Alberta. But Alberta must “show these people they’re unwelcome here,” she said in an interview.
David Millican, a spokesman for the Alberta Solicitor-General’s office, said the department will investigate Long to determine whether he is training people to become racist military vigilantes. There is discretionary power under Canada’s Criminial Code to issue Orders-in-Council prohibiting the assembly of people for the purpose of military training or drills in the use of arms.
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