A 77-year-old retired butcher from Montreal faces deportation as a suspected Nazi collaborator after a federal judge ruled that he had obtained Canadian citizenship under false pretenses. Following the ruling, it is now up to the Cabinet to approve revoking the citizenship of Vladimir Katriuk, a former member of a Ukrainian battalion that collaborated with a Nazi SS unit responsible for the deaths of thousands of Jews and others in Belarus and Ukraine between 1942 and 1944.
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