Self-described white supremacist pleads guilty to hate crimes; Crown stays charge accusing him of threatening to kill PM

A Winnipeg man arrested for hate speech crimes and threatening to kill Prime Minister Mark Carney told police: “My tongue could get cut off and I would still say these things,” a court has heard.

Jason Paul Rindall, 55, pleaded guilty Thursday to advocating genocide and promoting hatred of Muslims and Jewish people. A charge of uttering threats related to Carney was stayed by the Crown.

Rindall remains in custody and will be sentenced at a later date.

Rindall was arrested in February after Manitoba RCMP launched an investigation into threatening messages posted on social media platform X.

Rindall opened the public account under a pseudonym in February 2025. By April, Rindall’s inflammatory posts caught the attention of Ottawa RCMP, who started an investigation to determine his identity.

“Because the account was public, each post could be screen-shotted, shared or archived without restriction,” Crown attorney Vanessa Gama told court, reading from an agreed statement of facts.

“Although the accused had posted on a wide range of topics, the content was predominantly anti-government, anti-Muslim, anti-immigration and pro-white,” Gama said.

Gama did not quote directly from the posts, telling court more fulsome details will be provided at Rindall’s sentencing hearing “when there is more context” and input from the communities impacted by his hate speech.

“It’s a fine balancing act between the court having what they need to properly sentence Mr. Rindall and… placing it out in open court and not being able to control the dissemination of that hate speech without any further context,” Gama said.

Content in Rindall’s posts suggested he lived in Winnipeg, but when Ottawa RCMP forwarded their suspicions to Manitoba RCMP in April 2025, local Mounties could not immediately confirm his identity, Gama said.

Ottawa RCMP continued to monitor the X account until January 2026 when Rindall posted comments threatening Carney, which police assessed “as an escalation and elevation of risk,” Gama said.

Gama said several posts directed at Carney “also included adverse comments towards the Canadian government and law enforcement while also demonstrating white supremacist and misogynist sentiments. “(Rindall) also advocated for a civil war, violence and claimed to possess guns.”

The investigation was handed over to Manitoba RCMP’s national security enforcement section officers, who ultimately identified Rindall and arrested him Feb. 13. Police executed a search warrant at Rindall’s home a month later and found no firearms.

Between Feb. 24, 2025, and Feb. 12, 2026, Rindall posted multiple messages advocating for the genocide of Muslims, either through murder “or deliberately inflicting on the group conditions calculated to bring about its physical destruction,” Gama said, including the burning down of mosques.

In four messages posted between March 19, 2025, and Jan. 25, 2026, Rindall “willfully promot(ed) hatred” against Jewish people, saying in one message: “Hitler was on to something,” and in another called for the “de-Jewification” of North America.

In later messages Rindall self-identified as a racist and white supremacist and said: “Whites must remove all enemies from North America.”

In a police statement, Rindall admitted to authoring the posts and asserted hate speech laws should not exist, arguing “if I can think it, I can say it.”

dean.pritchard@freepress.mb.ca