The Canadian Jewish Congress has rejected on principle all political appeals by candidates in the forthcoming national and local elections which are based on religious or racial grounds.
Noting that Jewish citizens participate in the elections as citizens of Canada enjoying common rights and interest with all other citizens, the CJC condemned any appeal designed “to give the impression that there is an ethnic or religious bloc such as ‘the Jewish vote,’ and which is aimed at attracting votes by favoring or discriminating against any group in the electorate.”
The Joint Public Relations Committee of B’nai B’rith and the Congress has reported the absence of any serious attempts to inject racial or religious issues into the campaigns. It has, meanwhile, appealed to all Jewish citizens to vote in the elections as a matter of exercising an important right of citizenship.
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