{"id":104544,"date":"2026-09-01T05:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T09:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=104544"},"modified":"2026-08-31T16:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T20:13:05","slug":"despite-police-efforts-the-dominion-society-successfully-holds-their-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/despite-police-efforts-the-dominion-society-successfully-holds-their-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite police efforts, the Dominion Society successfully holds their conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dominion Society of Canada had planned to hold their conference at a venue in Hamilton, but Hamilton police took it upon themselves to harass the owners of rental facilities to ensure that the conference could not take place. Despite active police intervention, the organizers found an appropriate site in Burlington and the event went ahead after all<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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It’s always a good look when the local police are trying to intimidate businesses to prevent a peaceful legal gathering from taking place.<\/p><\/div>\n

On August 29th, the Dominion Society of Canada (DSC) hosted a sold-out conference<\/a> bringing together domestic and international speakers.Taking place in Burlington, the event was originally announced for Hamilton and was elevated to the status of international incident by legally dubious political policing, the likely unconstitutional interference of federal agencies, and numerous violations of political neutrality by local municipalities and charitable organizations.<\/p>\n

Launched in 2025 and swelling to several thousand members by 2026, the DSC exists to advocate for immigration restriction and Canadian nationalism. Controversially, this includes a ten-year halt to immigration and the deportation of millions of non-citizen residents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

DSC’s first conference, this was a deciding moment for the increasingly notorious organization and was strongly opposed by left-wing and anti-nationalist groups, including local civic and social planning organizations, the Jewish rights and advocacy group B’nai Brith<\/a>, Hope Not Hate, and the state-backed Canadian Anti Hate Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The event nearly passed with little notice. But moderates and liberals across the country were alarmed at a chilling assault on free assembly and expression mobilized against DSC at all levels of power.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the event, the Hamilton Police Service urged venues<\/a> “to consider the impact this event and its messaging may have on the broader community when making decisions about hosting it” and claimed “the messaging associated with DomCon is divisive and exclusionary and can negatively impact the sense of safety and belonging within our community”.<\/p>\n

Dominion Society founder Daniel Tyrie<\/a> condemned the move to use police resources to dissuade venues from hosting the conference: “Today we learn that they are going venue-by-venue to pressure businesses into canceling on us or refuse our booking. Is this an appropriate use of police resources in a city as dysfunctional as Hamilton?”<\/p>\n

In a call with Wire Tap Media, Inspector Darren Murphy denied that Hamilton Police Service (HPS) were engaged in political intimidation, and confirmed the steps taken by HPS to keep DSC out of Hamilton<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Dominion Society of Canada had planned to hold their conference at a venue in Hamilton, but Hamilton police took it upon themselves to harass the owners of rental facilities to ensure that the conference could not take place. Despite active police intervention, the organizers found an appropriate site in Burlington and the event went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,10,28,53],"tags":[431,212,186,1099,554,98],"class_list":["post-104544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","tag-conservatism","tag-freedomofassembly","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-hamilton","tag-immigration","tag-police"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-rcc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104546,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104544\/revisions\/104546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}