One cannot, therefore, take too lightly the appearance of fascist movements and parties in Canada in the 1930s. In times of crisis - like the Great Depression - it becomes possible to mobilize anger and xenophobia as a political movement. Perhaps one of the hidden benefits of a divided Canadian dualism and pluralism is that it is difficult to muster a mass response to a putative scapegoat group. Ideology provides much stronger glue than localized hostility toward some practice or group. Efforts to transform local movements into national political organizations have generally failed.
