She wanted credit for bringing down a white supremacy group. The judge dismissed her case – By Tyler Dawson (National Post) / Feb 11 2021
An Ontario judge said Elisa Hategan’s lawsuit relied on speculation and conspiracy theories
The bizarre case of a woman who wanted sole credit for bringing down a notorious hate group, suing a one-time ally along with one of Canada’s best-known anti-hate activists, has come to an ignominious end in the courts.
An Ontario judge said Elisa Hategan’s lawsuit, which targeted another former fascist, Elizabeth Moore, for allegedly appropriating her life story, relied on speculation and conspiracy theories and ordered it dismissed.
Both women had both been members of the Heritage Front, a Canadian white supremacist group, in the early 1990s. They joined as female teenagers in an otherwise male-dominated extremist group.
“The contention between the parties rests on Ms. Hategan’s belief that she was the ‘only young woman who played any role whatsoever in the collapse of the Heritage Front’ and that she has therefore ‘earned the right to state unequivocally that I contributed to the shutting down of the Heritage Front,’” Ontario Superior Court Justice Jane Ferguson says in the ruling.
