Oh yeah, all the way back in 2015? It is certainly promoted through US social media algorithms and both the US and Russia intervene in politics through bots that the pro-fascism algorithms privilege. But like, this is by no means a new development because of raising tensions with the US. How are there so many people who don't remember the fallout of Trudeau's first term? It coincided with a general rise in fascist values and rhetoric promoted through social media algorithms.
People out west are correctly identifying that the electoral system devalues their votes, and that the neoliberal state will not support them materially if there is any deviation from capitalist economic imperatives (such as providing expansion of education, employment, and medical welfare programs in the event of a decline in fossil fuel, mining, and forestry employment). Because most of them are also settlers, they are going to gravitate toward more liberal and fascist rhetoric and policy because they still want to remain privileged in this system. It wouldn't work so easily if it wasn't already here.