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Paul Fromm (born 1949) is a Canadian far-right political figure with links to Neo-nazis though he denies being one himself. He is based in the Toronto area.

In 1967, as a student, Fromm co-founded the Edmund Burke Society with Don Andrews (who would later found the racist Nationalist Party of Canada). The Edmund Burke Society was a right-wing anti-communist group which eventually became the white supremacist Western Guard. Fromm left the Western Guard in 1972.

Fromm tried to distance himself for a time from groups that were visibly linked to explicitly racist and neo-Nazi beliefs and founded organizations that attempted to make similar views palatable to the mainstream. In 1979 he founded "Citizens for Foreign Aid Reform" (C-FAR) a "Canada First" group that opposed foreign aid to third world nations. Though C-FAR's was founded specifically to address the foreign aid issue it campaigns on a number of questions of both domestic and foreign policy including crime and punishment, multiculturalismMulticulturalism or cultural pluralism is a policy, ideal, or reality that emphasizes the unique characteristics of different cultures in the world, especially as they relate to one another in immigrant receiving nations. The term was coined in Canada in, immigration and other issues. It sponsors lectures by well-knowns of the far right and has a line of pamphlets and books mostly on racial and immigration issues. The next year he founded the "Canadian Association for Free Expression" (CAFE) which was created in opposition to the establishment of the Canadian Human Rights Commission and has been active defending the rights of accused anti-Semites, racists and Holocaust deniersRichard Harwood's Did Six Million Really Die Holocaust denial is the claim that the mainstream historical version of the Holocaust is either highly exaggerated or completely falsified. Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism Holocaust deniers prefer to against prosecution under hate crimeA hate crime bias crime , loosely defined, is a crime committed because of the perpetrator's prejudices. This is a controversial political issue within the US. The US Congress HR 4797 1992) defined a hate crime as: "[a crime in which] the defendant's conds and human rightsHuman rights natural rights are rights which some hold to be "inalienable" and belonging to all humans, according to natural law. Such rights are believed, by proponents, to be necessary for freedom and the maintenance of a " reasonable" quality of life. legislation. The third group he founded was the "Canada First Immigration Reform Committee" which opposed immigrationImmigration is the act of moving to or settling in another country or region, temporarily or permanently. An immigrant is usually someone who intends to reside permanently, and not a casual visitor or traveler. Immigration means "in-migration" into a coun, particularly by non-whites. These three groups still exist today and are still led by Fromm. Their membership and madates overlap and they are essentially a single organization for all intents and purposes. Fromm's leadership of these groups has given him some access to media such as being invited onto radio talk shows and occasionally being quoted in the newspaper or having a letter to the editor published.

Fromm attempted to enter mainstream political activity by joining the Progressive Conservative Party and became treasurer of "PC Metro", a network of Toronto PC riding associations in 1981 but was expelled from the party when he was quoted advocating belief in a "supreme race" and called for Vietnamese refugees to be sent to "desert islands" rather than be accepted into Canada. In the mid to late 1980s, Fromm's organizations were involved in advocacy on behalf of South Africa's apartheid regime and opposed the movement to impose sanctions on the country. In the late 1980s, Fromm was an active member of the Reform Party of Canada but was essentially expelled in late 1988 when leader Preston Manning sent Fromm a letter asking him to "dissociate" himself from the party. In the 1988 Canadian election, Fromm ran as a candidate for the Confederation of Regions Party in the riding of Mississauga East receiving 288 votes.

In the 1990s, Fromm spoke on a number of occasions to gatherings of the neo-Nazi Heritage Front, including a celebration of Adolf Hitler's birthday, leading ultimately to his being fired in 1994 from his job as a school teacher.

He has also shared a stage with Holocaust denier David Irving and has organized rallies in support of Ernst Zündel. In 2004 he was associated with David Duke's efforts to unite the far right via the New Orleans Protocol, which seeks to "mainstream our cause."

Recently, he has tried to revive use of the Red Ensign flag and his political events and rallies usually have the old Canadian flag prominently displayed.

Despite his claims of being a free speech advocate, Fromm has unsuccessfully attempted to sue the Canadian Jewish Congress among others for describing him as a neo-Nazi.

Fromm has also spoken out against interracial couples despite the fact that he has had a number of affairs with non-white women.