B’nai Brith Canada urged present and prospective holders of the Order of Canada to protest the refusal to revoke the order from a native leader on trial for an anti-Semitic tirade. B’nai Brith called on Order of Canada recipients to put a strip of black tape over their pins to signal dissatisfaction that David Ahenakew still holds his order.
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