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The Saskatchewan-based leader of a small, far-right political party has seen his candidate page temporarily unpublished by Facebook for alleged hate speech.

Travis Patron, leader of the still-unregistered Canadian Nationalist Party, said he first noticed his campaign Facebook page was no longer public on Wednesday morning.

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“Facebook is messing around with us,” he said. “I would be very interested in seeing what kind of hate speech I was even engaged in.”

Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, applauded the move, calling Patron “the leader of a Neo-Nazi party.” But he said the social media giant must do more to stamp out Patron from its platform.

Patron’s personal Facebook page remained public, as did the party’s page, where he posted a screenshot of a message from Facebook. It said he’d violated Facebook’s community standards by using hate speech. The campaign page remained down as of Wednesday afternoon, but was back up Thursday morning.