Bernard Klatt is a former Canadian internet service provider who ran what has been called "Canada's most notorious source of hate propaganda". In 1996, his Fairview Technology Centre in Oliver,

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hosted websites for "at least 12 groups promoting white supremacy and hate against minorities" according to the

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.Hate groups using B.C. Internet site (FROM SOUTHAMSTAR NETWORK (Vancouver Sun), 375 words, 19 July 1996, The Toronto Star The sites included the

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, the Euro-Canadian Defence League and the Canadian Patriot's Network - hosted at the Freedom Site, which is run by Marc Lemire as well as Skin-Net, White Power Skinheads, Berserk, New Order and Nordland. A preface page to the site warned the "racially weak-at-heart" not to go any further if they are offended. The local cable TV company subsequently cut off Fairview's cable access and ordered Klatt to get his server computer out of its offices."Hate-literature incidents cited", Canadian Press, 27 July 1996, Winnipeg Free Press Tyrone Mills, a former employee of Klatt's, told the media that Klatt gave him literature from the

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and invited him to an

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compound at

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. "I said no, I had no interest at all, and that was that," said Mills, who worked for Klatt for seven months. "Another time he asked me, in 1995, to manage his (business) while he was down in Hayden Lake." Mills also said that Klatt voiced racist views at work and once asked him to take the literature to a friend. In 1998, Klatt organized a meeting in the Okanagan town, coinciding with the

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International Day for the Elimination of Racism, featuring Doug Collins,

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, Eileen Pressler and Paul Fromm. 40 members of the rural community picketed the meeting which was attended by a handful of people. Klatt's internet service was closed in 1998 when BC Tel informed him of their refusal to accept legal liability for it.Notorious Internet service closes B.C. to continue probe of Klatt BY ROSS HOWARD, The Globe and Mail, 455 words, 28 April 1998

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