J. T. Thorson, retired president of the Exchequer Court of Canada, urged the federal government today to amend the Criminal Code to stamp out the spread of hate-literature in the country. He told a public meeting on human rights sponsored by the Canadian Citizenship Council that this problem “cries for immediate solution.” “There must be a suppression of the hate-literature with its poisonous attack on the Jews that has recently been circulated,” he said: “An effort must be made to amend the Criminal Code to eliminate this canker.”
Judge Thorson said Canadians feel free to condemn racial discrimination in other lands. However, he stressed, Canada is far from being free of discrimination; Substantial progress, he declared, had been made in recent years in Canada in reducing the scourge of racial discrimination. But there still was discrimination against Negroes and other Canadians whose skins are not white, and anti-Semitic sentiment in several parts of Canada.
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