The Department of Justice has been ordered to release thousands of memos detailing the continued concealment of postwar files on Nazi fugitives who entered Canada.
Blacklock's Reporter says Information Commissioner Caroline Maynard issued the directive, setting a deadline of June 30, but the department has indicated compliance will come only after the election campaign.
“I order the Minister of Justice to provide a complete response to the access request as soon as possible and no later than June 30,” Maynard wrote in a March 28 Final Report.
The department identified 20,933 pages of previously undisclosed records related to cabinet’s refusal to release Nazi blacklists.
Despite a year’s delay, less than half of the records have been examined.
“The Department confirmed the file has been transferred to a senior analyst and that 6,600 pages have been reviewed to date,” Maynard wrote. “The remaining 14,300 pages need to be reviewed.”
The records were sought following the government’s failure to fulfill a pledge to declassify and release the files.
“I don’t think there’s any excuse,” then-Immigration Minister Marc Miller told reporters in 2023. “There’s no excuse for delay other than the fact that we do have to have a process where the declassification of these documents is done in a thoughtful way.” (more...)
Justice Department ordered to release Nazi files
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