Illegal firearms trial set to start for Chilliwack man connected to far-right white nationalist Diagolon movement
Self-described extremist Landon Preik on trial for 10 counts related to illegal firearms
A trial is scheduled to start in Chilliwack provincial court Tuesday morning (Sept. 16, 2025) that may address the far-right extremist movement Diagolon and its white white nationalist, anti-government, anti-vaxxer ideals.
Or, it might be a simple trial about one man’s firearms charges after RCMP saw his kooky militia videos posted because he was tricked by Diagolon founder Jeremy Mackenzie’s big joke.
Landon Preik, a self-described militia member accused of sharing extremist videos, is on trial facing 10 firearms charges.
“The videos allegedly depicted masked individuals identifying themselves as militia, anti-establishment messaging and the display of multiple firearms,” a 2022 RCMP statement said.
The videos aren't easily accessible online anymore, but a four-year-old social media post under the name "Landon Preik" referred to the “LYNX movement. Liberate your [neighbourhood]. Liberate your nation.”
Another post vaguely encouraged people to support the movement and urged action.
“Actions definitely speak louder than words. Are you doing anything.”
An investigation into the now 41-year-old Preik and the videos started on Sept. 14, 2021, according to an RCMP statement in 2022 since deleted from the RCMP's newsroom.
Preik, born in 1984, has no history of criminal charges in B.C. according to court services online.
His arrest was apparently prompted by Diagolon founder Jeremy Mackenzie who has had several criminal charges against him dropped, something that has prompted conspiracy theories that he’s a government agent.
Is Landon Preik a dangerous far-right anti-government extremist looking to take up arms to “liberate” the nation? Or is he a naive victim of a “honey-pot” scheme by a real white supremacist who’s been trolling the “liberal media” since 2020 while working for the federal government?
Diagolon is not a formal organization, it’s more of a loose network bound together by ideology, memes, and online propaganda. The name comes from a fictional “country” imagined by its founder, Jeremy MacKenzie, a former Canadian Forces soldier from Nova Scotia. He and others describe Diagolon as stretching “diagonally” across North America, from Alaska through Alberta then a few conservative states right down to Florida.
Mackenzie has bragged that he is the person who notified the RCMP about Preik’s social media videos.
The “joke” version is that it’s a meme-country; the darker version is that it’s a shorthand for a future, balkanized state run by like-minded extremists. Canadian security agencies, journalists, and watchdog groups have linked Diagolon to violent rhetoric and accelerationism.
Members and sympathizers were present at events such as the “Freedom Convoy” in Ottawa in 2022. During the RCMP’s arrests at the Coutts, Alberta blockade, police seized weapons and body armour along with patches linked to Diagolon.
MacKenzie was proudly front and centre at the trucker convoy protest, even photographed shaking hands with Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre who later marched with far-right extremists connected to Diagolon on Ottawa streets.
MacKenzie and his supporters repeated in 2023 and 2024 that Diagolon was all a big joke and the media and authorities have been duped time and time again.
“I have a superpower of being able to get under people's skin,” MacKenzie is quoted in a SaskToday article.
In truth, MacKenzie is an anti-Semitic podcaster who says the Nuremberg Trials were a “kangaroo court.”
He faced firearms charges in three provinces for being found with caches of guns. He was charged with criminal harassment of Nova Scotia’s chief medical officer Robert Strang, charges that were only dropped due to Charter delays. Speaking of charges being dropped, 13 charges were laid against MacKenzie after a video of him brandishing a handgun posted to Instagram led to a raid at his parents’ Nova Scotia home where police found firearms, body armour, and prohibited magazines.
Preik was arrested one day after Mackenzie was arrested for the Nova Scotia case and Mackenzie’s charges were dropped, a fact that is one more piece of evidence some claim possible points to the idea that Mackenzie works for the federal government.
Bryan Trottier tells me he was the complainant in the cases against Mackenzie in Saskatchewan and Quebec, which is why he “knows” there was prosecutorial and police malfeasance leading to the charges being dropped.
When I questioned Trottier about his far out conspiracy theories, he looped in Alexandra Moore to our conversation. Moore runs the website CanuckLaw.ca, a website created in 2020 focused on legal matters and conspiracy theories. Moore is not a lawyer.
“The point is that the story from MacKenzie – about ratting [Preik] out in Fall 2021 – makes no sense,” Moore told me via email. “He contacted RCMP about Preik to prevent an armed conflict. And that's a story he tells anyone who will listen.
“Jeremy MacKenzie (a.k.a. Raging Dissident) had been arrested for gun charges the day before Preik did, Jan. 27, 2022, but then immediately released. Prosecutors put no effort whatsoever into convicting him.”
Moore said that because Preik was interviewed multiple times in late 2021 but not charged, and he was only charged after MacKenzie faced serious charges, it’s a conspiracy.
“The obvious conclusion one can draw is that Jeremy ratted on him in January 2022 in order to get himself released. It stands the ‘public hero’ narrative he tells on its head. He's just a prison rat.”
The narrative embraced by Trottier and Moore exchanging emails with me is that Jeremy Mackenzie and Diagolon is akin to Grant Bristow and the Heritage Front.
Bristow was employed by CSIS and co-founded and infiltrated the white supremacist group Heritage Front. Bristow was involved for six years, later exposed by a Toronto Sun reporter as being as much contributory as infiltrative.
I asked Trottier if Jeremy Mackenzie is the new Grant Bristow, i.e. a CSIS agent, and Diagolon is a government honeypot scheme, or if Diagalon is real but Mackenzie is just a rat, rolling on his own to get his charges dropped.
Trottier said “both are true.”
“Diagolon is as real as Heritage Front was ‘real.’
“Diagolon likely started off organically, but MacKenzie was rolled to report on convoy. He was busted for 20-plus firearms charges days before convoy and released on a promise to appear with no statutory conditions, which is absolutely unheard of. Two days later he was at convoy.”
Rebel Media founder Ezra Levant comes into the picture as a right-wing pro-Zionist clashing with the white supremacist anti-semites in the far-right sphere. When Levant heard Mackenzie’s charges were dropped he posted simply on Twitter: “He’s a fed.”
Levant said the four men from Coutts whose trial he was covering are Diagolon followers who started to “live-action role-play” Diagolon’s message, which MacKenzie has claimed was a joke to troll the liberal media.
I asked Trottier about the Canadian Anti-Hate Network article on this topic discussing the Levant-MacKenzie spat.
“They are both grifters, but Ezra is right about Jeremy being a fed.”
As for Moore with her CanuckLaw.ca site, she along with Trottier are convinced by one anecdote or another that MacKenzie is either a CSIS agent or a paid consultant.
“The sheer amount of evidence, both concrete and circumstantial, that Mackenzie and his hate propaganda operation are at very least state-adjacent is very concerning, and arguably the bigger story here in contrast to a kook making videos with improperly stored long-guns,” Trottier told me, referring to Preik in Chilliwack as the “kook.”
MacKenzie has indeed engaged in ongoing behaviour, including holocaust denial and illegal firearm activities, but he keeps skating away from criminal charges. In fact, as of June 2024 all charges against MacKenzie have been dropped or withdrawn, according to the SaskToday article.
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