Matthew Alexander Lauder

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Matthew Alexander (Matt) Lauder, (born ca. 1970) is a native of Kingston, Ontario. He is the former director of the anti-racism program at the Guelph and District Multicultural Centre.

Lauder is best known for his undercover involvement in Ontario's far-right, which included operating a White Nationalist website called Anschluss Kanada.. He has written various articles about his activities with far-right figures and his "outing" when he was discovered to be an anti-racist. His Doctoral thesis entitled "Covert Participant Observation of a Deviant Community: Justifying the Use of Deception" was printed in the Journal of Contemporary Religion, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2003.

Lauder obtained his Bachelor of Arts at Queens University in Kingston, his Master of Arts at Wilfrid Laurier University and defended his PhD thesis at Lancaster University in Lancaster, England.

His opinion is frequently solicited for articles involving racism in the Guelph Mercury.

Lauder is of Scottish descent. In a Nov. 2001 interview with the University of Guelph newspaper The Ontarion, Lauder stated that he also has Jewish relatives.[1]

Matthew Lauder is currently the subject of a lawsuit brought by neo-Nazi leader Marc Lemire against himself and the Guelph Multicultural Center for alleged factual inaccuracies in his report. [2]