Following speaking tours of Canada in the mid-1960s, Eric Butler sought to establish of a local version of his organisation.
[1] Like its sister organisations, the CLR adheres to social credit and antisemitism.
The CLR was described as "one of Canada's largest and best organized anti-Semitic groups" in the 1987 book A Trust Betrayed.
The CLR linked with various groups such as the Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada and ran a book service selling Holocaust denial material.
The third Crown Commonwealth League of Rights conference was held in 1983 in Canada.