This follows years of attempts to obtain an uncensored version of the 1986 study, which examined the circumstances under which alleged Nazi war criminals and collaborators came to Canada after WW2
A 618-page report from 1986 examining the postwar arrival in Canada of those alleged of Nazi war crimes still hasn’t been fully declassified, but certain segments must now be made public, according to a recent Federal Court ruling.
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In a 21-page ruling issued Tuesday, Justice Simon Fothergill said the public interest in preserving the historical record, the many decades that have passed and the weakness of the government’s reasons for continued secrecy all weighed in favour of increased disclosure of historian Alti Rodal’s report.
“We deserve the opportunity to learn from our past and to come to terms with the shortcomings of Canada,” Richard Robertson, B’nai Brith Canada’s Director of Research and Advocacy said.
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The decision follows years of attempts to obtain an uncensored version of the study, Nazi War Criminals in Canada: The Historical and Policy Setting from the 1940s to the Present, commonly called the Rodal Report.
