Edmund Burke Society In the 1960s, Andrews was drawn to far right groups and cofounded the
Edmund Burke Society with
Paul Fromm and Leigh Smith in 1967.
Western Guard Andrews became the primary leader of the group and transformed it into the
antisemitic and
white supremacist Western Guard in 1972. Paul Fromm split with Andrews shortly after the Western Guard was formed in 1972. Andrews was the first person in Canada charged with wilfully promoting hatred, and in 1975 he was charged with offences ranging from plotting arson, possession of weapons and explosives, and mischief, for which he was sentenced to two years in jail. Along with the Western Guard, he also plotted to bomb a visiting Israeli soccer team, although he was never charged for this. Consequently, the leadership of the Western Guard fell to
John Ross Taylor in 1976. In 1976, Andrews' home was the target of a bombing by Joseph Schachter, a member of the
Jewish Defence League. The bomb caused damage to the home, but nobody was harmed.
Nationalist Party Don Andrews is a
Canadian perennial candidate, having run for
Mayor of Toronto in
1972,
1974,
1976,
1988,
1991,
1994,
1997,
2003,
2010 and most recently in
2014, when he came in seventh place with 0.10% of the vote. In the
1974 election, Andrews placed a distant second in the mayoralty race as no serious candidate ran against popular incumbent,
David Crombie. As a result, the municipal law was changed so that the runner-up in the mayoralty contest no longer had the right to succeed to the mayor's chair should the position become vacant between elections. Andrews has only run on occasions when his name appears first on the ballot. He sat out the 2000 municipal election in which fringe candidate
Enza "Supermodel" Anderson was a candidate. As of 1994, Andrews' organization had launched a campaign to celebrate "European Heritage Day," but when it was realized that the event was spearheaded by a neo-Nazi organization, the various cities approached rejected it or revoked their original decision. In 1998, Andrews tried a new tactic by attempting to get a European heritage week declared in London, Ontario. When it was recognized as a neo-Nazi attempt, an emergency vote was held by the municipal government, and the week was cancelled.
Dominica invasion attempt Andrews was involved in the preliminary planning for Operation Red Dog, but left the group when they changed their target to Dominica. ==Electoral record==