Federal archivists face a Federal Court challenge from B’nai Brith over their concealment of a decades-old blacklist of Nazi fugitives let into Canada after the Second World War. “History still needs to be fully told,” the group wrote a federal judge.
B’nai Brith in its Court application asked that a judge find Library and Archives Canada “acted unreasonably and unlawfully in withholding information” under the Access To Information Act. Researchers seek an uncensored version of the so-called Rodal Report, a 613-page document by historian Alti Rodal completed in 1986 for a Commission of Inquiry on War Crimes led by Québec Court of Appeal Justice Jules Deschenes.
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