2025 Donald Smiley Prize

Winners: Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana and Samuel Tanner

The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada (McGill-Queen’s University Press) 

Excerpt from jury report: In The Great Right North: Inside Far-Right Activism in Canada, Leman-Langlois, Campana, and Tanner deliver a pathbreaking examination of Canada’s far-right extra-parliamentary groups over the past decade. Drawing on unprecedented field research and interviews, the authors illuminate the evolution, internal dynamics, and societal impact of far-right groups across the country. Their rigorous analysis and innovative theoretical framework enrich our understanding of extremism’s interplay with Canadian politics and democracy, answering timely questions about why these groups have (re)emerged, who joins them, how they operate, and what their rise means for Canadian society and politics.