end of an academic year in which far-right speakers and groups had been challenging the limits of free speech on college campuses in the United States by scheduling provocative and highly-publicised speeches and events, compelling colleges and universities to spend millions of dollars in security fees alone. Shannon Dea, who was Vice-President of the Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo at the time, expressed concern that the Duchesne/Goldy event was one of a series of "repeated efforts by fringe groups to lay traps for universities by organizing on-campus events featuring speakers calculated to provoke a response," through which the organizers benefit from the prestige of the university if it is held but can claim they are victimized by excessive "political correctness" if it is not. The Faculty Association chose not to object to the holding of the event, responding instead by using it as an occasion to fundraise for university groups devoted to Indigenous, racialized, and international students. Duchesne stirred further controversy by appearing as a guest on Faith Goldy's podcast. Upon the invitation of UBC Students For Academic Freedom, Ricardo Duchesne gave a lecture at the University of British Columbia in the Fall of 2018, introduced by Lindsay Shepherd, entitled "Critical Reflections on Canadian Multiculturalism", in which he asserted the right of "Euro-Canadians" to "white identity politics" within the framework of Canada's official multiculturalism. While visiting Vancouver to present the lecture, Duchesne courted controversy and publicity, walking around the university campus together with a camerawoman and challenging random passers-by to debate him on immigration, gay rights and the merits of a white ethnostate. In May 2019, Ricardo Duchesne was indirectly linked to an attempt that had been made to embarrass the People’s Party of Canada, a fringe right wing Canadian political party. Fake emails containing explicitly racist content were sent out, in the names of two senior party executives, to a former party member who had quit in protest against what he had considered to be the party’s racist turn, apparently with the intention that the recipient would then publicize the disturbing messages. Some of the suspect content of the emails was plagiarized from posts made by Ricardo Duchesne on his Council of European Canadians website and falsely attributed to the two executive officers. The webpage by Duchesne from which the content was copied has since been deleted from the Council of European Canadians blog. On October 9,