Faith Goldy not fit to be Toronto’s next mayor
October 2018
Faith Goldy running for mayor of Toronto is unsettling. The distasteful aggression she brings to her campaign makes it almost impossible to want to follow her. Words like “white nationalist,” “far-right,” “Anti-Semitic,” racist,” and “Nazi-sympathetic” have all been used by many of her “haters” to describe Goldy’s political views and agenda.
In her campaign for mayor, Goldy has expressed she believes in the “White genocide conspiracy theory.” Developed by neo-Nazi David Lane in 1995, the theory is an alt-right, white nationalist conspiracy theory that espouses the belief that racial integration and immigration among other things such as miscegenation, eliminationism, low fertility rates and abortion are acts that will wipe out white populations.
Goldy’s barbaric “Put Toronto First” plan emphasizes that if she becomes mayor, she will “evacuate all illegal migrants from Toronto’s shelter system by bus to the Prime Minister’s official residence or the nearest jurisdiction that will take them.”
Goldy is a former reporter for several press and broadcast media organizations including the Toronto Sun, The Catholic Register, Bell Media, and The Rebel Media. She appeared on a podcast called The Krypto Report, and she mocked anti-fascist counter-protesters. She was then fired from the Rebel by Ezra Levant because subscribers stopped financially supporting the publication.
The former journalist is a wild card of sorts, not your typical white supremacist. She’s young and beautiful. She also does not let her increasingly suppressed political voice shake her confidence in her fight to be the next mayor of Toronto. Her forceful belief in her twisted agenda that is white-supremacy and far-right white-nationalism is baffling and offensive to many communities in Toronto. About 21.9 per cent of Canadians identify as immigrants, according to the 2016 Census. That is the largest percentage in over 80 years.
The 29-year-old decided to run for mayor of Toronto only recently. She was not invited to any of the mayoral debates that were held before the Oct. 22 election. As a result, Goldy disrupted the first debate in September between incumbent John Tory, former chief city planner Jennifer Keesmaat and the other candidates including Gautam Nath, Sarah Climenhaga and Saron Gebresellassi. Goldy was escorted off the stage by police after a few moments. Her appearance at the debate shows her inability to accept that she was not invited to discuss the future of Toronto’s political establishment.
Goldy’s unwanted appearance and police-escorted removal from the first debate did not stop her from ambushing Tory at a press conference he held just before election night. But it did make Bell Media think twice about running Goldy’s campaign ads on CP24, a local television news station. In fact, they refused. They had gotten over 80 written complaints and many voicemails from groups not to run them. They also said they did not want to comment further.
Goldy filed a lawsuit alleging that the company had broken national broadcasting rules and violated her right to freedom of expression, but a judge dismissed her claim, saying that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) should have been addressed, not the Ontario Superior Court. Bell Media told the court that it was a business decision when they decided not to run Goldy’s campaign ads.
In an online article published in The Walrus, freelance journalist Justin Ling writes that Goldy’s approach to intruding on local politics is not unheard of. “Goldy’s entry into politics doesn’t represent anything exceptional. There’s usually a variety of people who run for office in Canada on a platform of fear-mongering, nationalism, Islamophobia, or some combination therein…What is new, and what convinces me that Goldy is worth talking about above the other far-right candidates making a bid for Toronto high office, is the current chaos of our political culture.”
Similarly, the United States is in chaos over President Donald Trump’s egregious behaviour in the White House. From his white nationalist claims to his utter ignorance of immigration policies, Goldy is right there with him cheering him on like a high school cheerleader on the sidelines of a football game. And with the fast-approaching midterm elections in America, Goldy has not been shy about her support for the president on social media. Photos of her sporting a red “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN” hat have circulated on the Internet.
But it’s not only her admiration for Trump that makes her bad for politics. Her social media presence, mostly her Twitter account, shows her lack of political knowledge. She is promoting and campaigning on the rash and grotesque platforms that quite frankly do not reflect the multiculturalism that is Toronto’s identity. In one of her most vile tweets, Goldy writes, “Vote Faith Goldy for mayor and Toronto ceases to be a Sharia safe space.”
Goldy says she wants to “make Toronto safe again,” but having her as mayor would only provoke non-inclusive behaviours that do not represent Toronto as a whole.
