B’nai Brith Canada is taking the federal government to court over its refusal to fully disclose a decades-old report detailing how Nazi fugitives were allowed into Canada after the Second World War.
“History still needs to be fully told,” the organization wrote in its Federal Court application.
Blacklock's Reporter says the lawsuit accuses Library and Archives Canada of “unreasonably and unlawfully” withholding information under the Access To Information Act. Researchers are seeking an uncensored version of the Rodal Report, a 613-page document authored in 1986 by historian Alti Rodal for the Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes, led by Québec Court of Appeal Justice Jules Deschênes.
“The Rodal Report provides a key window into the history of the immigration of Nazi war criminals to Canada and Canada’s response,” B’nai Brith stated. Government lawyers have yet to file a statement of defence.
The group is also demanding the release of “all materials and communications with any foreign state” regarding the Nazi blacklist, as well as any internal government or parliamentary records related to the report. (more...)
B’nai Brith sues Ottawa over secret Nazi blacklist
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