User:Objectivesea/Sandbox/Melissa Guille

Melissa Guille (born 1972) is a white supremacist and the leader of the Canadian Heritage Alliance. Originally founded in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario but based in London, Ontario since 2002, the group, which has been characterised as white supremacist, was accused by Detective Terry Wilson, formerly of London police force's Hate Crime Unit, of having links with the Heritage Front and the Kitchener based Tri-City Skins.

In 2001, according to a report by the Canadian Press wire service, "B'nai Brith Canada and Waterloo Region police have both identified the Canadian Heritage Alliance as a white supremacy organization with ties to established hate groups." Guille denied the allegations, saying, "We are a nationalist group, not a hate group. We're not promoting hate at all. We're not hurting anybody, and we're not suggesting anybody be hurt." While acknowledging being the ex-girlfriend of Heritage Front leader Marc Lemire, Guille denied that her group was affiliated with any hate groups, though she was reported as saying her group did appeal to those who believe in white supremacy and that such people were welcome to join.

On her website, Guille wrote "Europeans now face the most extensive racial discrimination in history. There is a war going on, and it's for our rights and freedoms in a country that our ancestors shaped."

Far-right leader Paul Fromm has been a mentor to her. For a number of years Guille, Fromm and several others attended the gay pride annual march in London, Ontario, and demonstrated against the marchers. She posted photos from these demonstrations on her site. The police were always in attendance.

In 2004 she was linked with the white supremacist organization Western Canada For Us as a scheduled speaker at one of their meetings.

The CHA and Melissa Guille are co-defendants in a federal human rights complaint for Internet hate filed in 2004 by Ottawa human rights lawyer Richard Warman. The complaint alleges that material on the website would likely expose homosexuals, Muslims, Jews, First Nations, blacks, Arabs, other non-whites and Roma to hatred or contempt in violation of s. 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. Website content engaged in Holocaust denial, and argued that whites who have relationships with black men deserve to die, that Jews are the literal children of Satan, and that non-white immigration into Europe is worse than the Black Plague that struck during the Middle Ages. The hearing began in 2006 and further dates are being scheduled.