Newly released documents from the Deschênes Commission show Canada’s reluctance to prosecute Nazi war criminals
The release of formerly classified documents from the 1986 Deschênes Commission—which investigated how Nazi war criminals entered Canada after the Second World War—reveals greater details about why the government was reluctant to prosecute them once they were in the country, says David Matas, the lawyer who represented B’nai Brith Canada at the inquiry. Canada released […]
Calls to release the complete reports of Canada’s mid-1980s inquiry into Nazi war criminals intensify after political debacle in Ottawa
The ongoing political controversy that saw a Ukrainian-Canadian veteran who fought in a Nazi unit being honoured in the House of Commons has revived the call for the unredacted reports from a federal commission on war criminals that was held nearly 40 years ago. In 1985, then Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney asked Justice Jules […]
