Seth Bertrand was sentenced to nine months in jail and three years of probation in a Windsor courtroom on Wednesday for being involved with a terrorist organization.
Bertrand was found guilty in August 2025.
From February to May 2022, Bertrand submitted an application to join the National Socialist Order to promote its white supremacist beliefs.
The court also determined that Bertrand vandalized the WETrans Centre with graffiti and threw a brake rotor through the front window of the Centre.
He additionally damaged the tires of a car parked outside the home of a same-sex couple and left a note stating “The Atom Waffen knows who you are!”
This note included Nazi symbols along with the phrase “hail Hitler”.
“”Terrorism rooted in white supremacist ideology is not an abstract threat; it is a deliberate strategy aimed at normalizing hatred-infused violence. The discrete acts directed locally at individuals were intended to publicly call into question through violence the legitimacy of full participation in Canadian society of members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The end purpose is to contribute to a larger destabilization,” said George Dolhai, Director of Public Prosecutions. “This case affirms that offences motivated by hatred and extremist ideology have no place in Canadian society.”
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