The presence in Canada of alleged Nazi war criminals, including one who was sentenced to death in absentia, will be the subject of discussions shortly between representatives of the Canadian Jewish Congress and Canada’s Department of External Affairs, it was disclosed in a report submitted to a meeting of the CJC’s national executive, made public here today.
The Congress had alerted Canadian authorities to the presence of war criminals on Canadian soil, and the Department of External Affairs is in the process of getting a legal opinion from the Justice Department on the effect on the citizenship and immigrant status of the alleged criminals, the report said.
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