Feature · Politics / public safety / platform moderation · 2026-08-22

DomCon 2026: the speakers, the bans, the opposition and the remigration idea behind Dominion Society’s Hamilton-area conference

A Greg Wycliffe Instagram Reel says Dominion Society’s Instagram account was disabled days before its first national conference. The official event page, CBC and Canadian Press reporting, and speaker records show a wider story: a Hamilton-area conference built around “Canadian nationalism” and “remigration,” platform bans, venue pressure, a controversial Austrian keynote, and a public debate over whether the movement is civic advocacy or ethnic exclusion repackaged as policy.

Editorial boundary: This feature reports the event and speaker record. It does not endorse ethnic/religious targeting, collective blame, violence, harassment, or mass-deportation rhetoric. Claims from the Reel, Dominion Society, CBC/CP, anti-racism groups and public officials are labelled by source.

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The event: when, where, time and advertised registration route

The official Dominion Society DomCon page lists DomCon 2026 for Saturday, August 29, 2026, in the Hamilton area, Ontario, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.. The exact venue is not public; CBC reports Dominion Society said it was keeping the location secret so members are not targeted.

The official page advertises Standard tickets at $150 and VIP tickets at $250. It also invites people to subscribe to the Dominion Society mailing list. For source transparency, the source package preserves the official DomCon page and records that the advertised ticket buttons are Stripe checkout links. This article treats that as public documentation, not an endorsement or recommendation.

What the Reel adds

The Reel says Dominion Society was banned from Instagram after reaching about 30,000 followers, that board-member personal accounts were also banned, and that the ban came amid a broader campaign against the conference. The thumbnail shows an Instagram notice saying account dominionsoc was disabled on August 14, 2026 because it did not follow rules on “dangerous individuals and organizations.”

Wycliffe argues this is political persecution and compares the treatment of Dominion Society with the World Sikh Organization. The article does not adopt hostile comment-thread material or ethnic/religious targeting language. It reports that comparison as Wycliffe’s argument and directs the public-safety/national-security claims to separate official-source checks where they belong.

The speaker lineup and their records

Speaker	Where/from	Role / public profile	Books, papers, essays or public work found
Daniel Tyrie	Canada; raised in Toronto; University of Waterloo, per Dominion bio/about page	Founder and chairman, Dominion Society of Canada	No standalone book found in this pass. Public-facing work is mainly organizational pages/campaign documents, including Dominion Society’s “What is Remigration?”, “Remigration Compact,” and “What is a Canadian?” pages.
Ken Jones	Canada; Dominion page emphasizes family roots in Canadian/Loyalist history	Co-founder / vice chair / operations lead, Dominion Society	No standalone book found in this pass. Public-facing work identified through Dominion Society organizational pages and campaign material.
Martin Sellner	Austria; born in Vienna, per public biography sources	Author, activist, founder of the Remigration Institute; former Identitarian Movement figure	Confirmed title: Remigration: ein Vorschlag (2024, Verlag Antaios, ISBN 978-3-949041-55-6). Also associated with remigration lectures, the Remigration Institute and Save Europe Act campaign; CP/Wikipedia record UK exclusion, U.S. travel-permit cancellation, and Germany entry-ban dispute.
Charlie Downes	United Kingdom	Campaigns Director/spokesman and co-founder, Restore Britain	No book found in this pass. Public-facing work is Restore Britain campaign/policy messaging around reversing immigration, national identity and British politics; Dominion page spells name Charlie, while the Reel transcript misheard it as “Carly.”
Alexandre Cormier-Denis	Quebec, Canada	Podcaster/political commentator, co-founder of Nomos-TV; Quebec nationalist media figure	Public work includes Nomos-TV broadcasts such as Culture & Société and political commentary on Quebec sovereignty, identity and immigration. No standalone book was confirmed in this pass.
Fortissax	Canada, public alias	Substack writer/political commentator	Fortissax is Typing Substack describes itself as essays on Canadian history, heroes, villains, victories and defeats. No standalone book found in this pass.
John Carter	Canada, according to Dominion bio’s “distinctly Canadian perspective” framing	Writer/cultural commentator; Postcards From Barsoom Substack	Dominion bio points to Postcards From Barsoom, describing essays mixing philosophy, politics, mythology and historical analysis. The claimed site could not be resolved directly in this pass; no standalone book confirmed.

The controversies around the event

Martin Sellner and border/admissibility questions

Canadian Press reported that Sellner, marketed as a keynote speaker, was permanently banned from the U.K. in 2019 on security grounds and had a U.S. travel permit cancelled after it emerged that the Christchurch mosque shooter had donated about €1,500 to him. CP also reported German authorities issued a three-year entry ban in 2024 after a nationalist meeting triggered protests; public biography sources add that a German court later revoked the Potsdam ban. Sellner denies involvement in violence and has argued restrictions against him are political.

Hamilton opposition and venue pressure

CBC Hamilton reported that Mayor Andrea Horwath sent letters to local businesses asking venues to be aware of Dominion Society and the purpose of the event. CBC also reported that HARRC, HCCI and other groups signed an open letter urging businesses and institutions not to rent space to Dominion Society, while Dominion Society told CBC it is not a hate group and describes itself as an advocacy group focused on Canadian heritage, identity and immigration reform.

Car-firebombing and other attack claims

The Reel says Quebec commentator Alexandre Cormier-Denis had his car firebombed by the far left in Montreal. NewsForBC/PBC searched for independent confirmation during this pass but did not locate a primary police, court or mainstream-media record. That claim is therefore kept in the article as a Reel allegation still needing source records. The same caution applies to claims about Hamilton police “working with Antifa,” Rachel Gilmour and e-commerce pressure: these are source-video allegations unless corroborated by documents.

The idea underneath: “remigration”

Dominion Society’s own pages define remigration as “the return of foreigners to their respective homelands” and advocate a 10-year immigration moratorium, revocation tools, and mass removals. CBC and Canadian Press characterize the group as anti-immigration and report expert concerns that remigration rhetoric targets racialized and immigrant communities. Dominion Society disputes the hate-group label and says it is preserving Canadian heritage and identity.

The key public-interest question is not whether Canadians may debate immigration numbers; they can and do. The question is whether the movement’s proposed solution crosses from immigration policy into collective punishment, racialized exclusion or civic-rights stripping. That is why the speaker list, ticket trail, platform-ban record, venue pressure and police/public-safety posture all belong in the same feature.

Quick source table

Event date/time	Official DomCon page: Aug. 29, 2026, Hamilton area, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.
How to sign up / attend	Official page lists Standard/VIP ticket buttons and mailing-list signup at dominionsociety.ca/domcon. Venue is not public.
Account ban	Instagram thumbnail notice: `dominionsoc` disabled Aug. 14, 2026 under dangerous-individuals/organizations policy.
Speakers	Official page lists Tyrie, Jones, Sellner, Downes, Cormier-Denis, Fortissax and Carter.
Opposition	CBC/CP: Hamilton mayor letters, HARRC/HCCI open letter, venue guidance, police planning comments.
Unverified claims	ACD car firebombing, e-commerce pressure, police/Antifa allegation and some political-attack claims remain records-wanted.

Source package

Machine transcript

[0.00–4.26] So the Dominion Society of Canada was banned off of Instagram just yesterday. [4.26–7.14] After amassing 30,000 followers in just one year, [7.14–9.86] their main account gets banned with no option to appeal, [9.86–13.80] along with the board members' personal accounts getting banned as well. [13.80–15.50] This is clearly political persecution, [15.50–16.90] but I'll go over the bullshit reasons [16.90–20.60] and how this is actually part of a larger campaign to attack the Dominion Society. [20.60–23.60] Those who don't know Dominion Society is a Canadian nationalist organization [23.60–27.16] that champions and celebrates Canadian identity and Canadian culture [27.16–28.66] and policy to help defend that. [28.66–31.06] And to demonstrate how this is clearly political persecution, [31.06–33.62] we're going to compare it to the World Seek Organization, [33.62–37.22] which advocates on the behalf of Seek Identity and Seek Culture. [37.22–40.30] The supposed reason that Dominion Society got banned from Instagram [40.30–42.10] was praising a terror attack, [42.10–44.50] supporting violence against a particular group of people. [44.50–45.36] Let's stop right there. [45.36–49.16] Here's a clip from the first ever World Seek Organization conference. [49.16–52.60] The WSO's founding convention was an angry affair. [52.60–56.84] Ajab Singh Bagri of Kamloops, DC made a notorious speech [56.84–59.44] urging Seeks to massacre Hindus. [64.84–67.84] Jake Meets Singh is obviously associated with the World Seek Organization, [67.84–71.80] the whole slew of Canadian politicians in every single major political party. [71.80–73.80] And yes, this even includes the deputy leader [73.80–75.84] of the Conservative Party of Canada, Tim Apple. [75.84–77.84] World Seek Organization is fine on Instagram, [77.84–80.24] promoting things like having carpans in schools, [80.24–81.74] and that sort of fun stuff. [81.78–84.14] So why are they targeting the Dominion Society? [84.14–87.44] It's because they're not just a mean page shouting about nasty portations. [87.44–91.28] There's actually comprehensive re-migration policies on their website [91.28–94.78] that could be adopted today by a political party if they so chose. [94.78–98.18] Dominion Society is not just shouting in the street doing random marches. [98.18–100.48] They're actually starting campaigns in local areas [100.48–102.34] to save the Champlain Monument, for example, [102.34–106.44] including distributing over 15,000 different pieces of literature door-to-door. [106.44–109.84] And Dominion Society is not just shouting online into a webcam. [109.84–113.34] They're actually holding a national conference at the end of this month [113.34–117.54] with some very impressive international speakers promoting their ideas. [117.54–121.44] One of the speakers at this conference, by the way, from Quebec, Alexander Cormier-Denis, [121.44–124.54] speaking of dangerous individuals and patterns of political violence, [124.54–128.54] he had his car firebombed by the far left in Montreal. [128.54–129.94] Does the CPC write about that? [129.94–133.34] No, in fact, with Dham Khan, Dominion Society's first-ever conference [133.34–134.44] coming up at the end of the month, [134.44–136.84] there has been so many attacks from all sides [136.84–138.54] coming against the Dominion Society again. [138.54–141.74] Of course, we have Rachel Gilmour trying to shut down our e-commerce website. [141.74–142.64] Thanks for that, Rachel. [142.64–145.44] The CBC amplifying some anti-racism groups. [145.44–148.14] They're calling the action to shut down the event in Hamilton this month. [148.14–150.54] You even have the Hamilton police working together with Antifa [150.54–151.84] trying to shut down this event. [151.84–153.54] And even from the Conservative Party camp, [153.54–156.54] you have this Maria character who's using something from my past [156.54–158.14] to try to attack the Dominion Society. [158.14–161.84] You even have the Canadian press itself coming after the Dominion Society. [161.84–164.24] That article tried to compare us to the KKK, by the way. [164.24–165.94] The establishment is clearly terrified. [165.94–167.84] They have Martin Selner speaking at the event [167.84–169.44] who literally wrote the book on re-migration. [169.44–172.14] Carly Downs, the campaign director of Restore Britain, [172.14–173.64] is speaking at this conference. [173.64–176.14] They do not want these ideas to become more popular in Canada, [176.14–179.94] which is why you should sign up to the mailing list at dominionsociety.ca.