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Canadian Party Criticized for Leniency Toward Anti-jewish Candidate

March 26, 1963
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A special Social Credit Party committee investigating charges that some of the party’s candidates in the forthcoming general elections are anti-Semitic was criticized here by the Toronto Star, one of Canada’s leading daily newspapers, in connection with statements made by Neil Carmichael, Social Credit candidate for Parliament, who has declared that Adolf Hitler’s economic policy “was a very good and sound system.”

According to the Star, the special committee had found that some of Carmicahel’s statements “were careless but in no way anti-Semitic.” A the same election rally where he expressed admiration for Hitler’s economic policies, Carmichael charged that “it was a Jewish reporter that started” the allegations that he was anti-Semitic. “I’m being persecuted by the Jews, ” he claimed. He also told the audience that “the Rothschilds” are trying to buy out all the Canadian mines they can “through a non-Jewish agent.”

The general elections are to be held April 8. Social Credit held the balance of power in the last Parliament, ranking third in the House of Commons after the Conservative and Liberals.

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