The Canadian Jewish Congress applauded a unanimous decision by the country’s House of Commons to bar a Toronto-based Holocaust denier from Canada’s Parliament buildings for the rest of the current parliamentary session. Ernst Zundel had booked a room last week on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill that is usually available to persons wishing to hold a press conference on subjects related to federal government business. Zundel was intending to publicly denounce a May 28 ruling of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, which is holding hearings to determine whether he is spreading hate via the Internet.
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