Trudeau Government Refuses to Release Names of Suspected War Criminals Given Refuge in Canada

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) has informed that the names provided to the Deschênes Commission of around 900 suspected Nazi collaborators and war criminals who were given refuge in Canada following World War II will not be released. The decision was not made publicly, but in a letter to participants in LAC's "stakeholder consultations" on the release of Part II of the report of Canada's 1986 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals (Deschênes Commission).

LAC received requests under the Access to Information Act from several organizations as well as broad public demand for the release of the files together with the entire report of the Deschênes Commission, parts of which have never been released.

"After a comprehensive review in accordance with the Access to Information Act and the Privacy Act — which included targeted consultations with external stakeholders and various Government of Canada departments — a decision has been made to withhold the Part II Report of the Deschênes Commission in its entirety," LAC said in a statement to the newspaper Daily Beast.

LAC staff consulted with a "discrete group of individuals or organizations" about whether the list should ever be made public. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) was consulted, and possibly other organizations which are known to defend war criminals and Nazi collaborators. Organizations which carry out research and education on the Holocaust expressed their outrage that they were not included, as did the Canadian Polish Congress and the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians.

The Trudeau government has provided no explanation as to who instructed LAC to hold consultations exclusively with organizations whose members are likely on the list of alleged war criminals in Canada. Serious questions remain as to who has seen the list and what information was quietly shared with the "discrete group of individuals and organizations." Has Deputy Prime Minister Freeland seen the list? Is her grandfather on it?

Esprit de Corps magazine reported that the "discrete group of advisors [...] claimed that such action [to reveal the names] could result in criminal prosecution of the alleged crimes. They also worried that the list could prove to be embarrassing to the Canadian government and the Ukrainian community in general. In addition, they raised concerns the list might be used by Russian president Vladimir Putin for propaganda purposes." It is not the Ukrainian community in general the forces pushing the monument are concerned about, but the pro-Nazi Ukrainians like the UCC.

The UCC threatened to launch a legal challenge to block the release of the lists of suspected war criminals. They always hide that Ukrainians in large numbers were part of the anti-fascist resistance and also reside in Canada. More than 40,000 Canadians of Ukrainian origin fought with the Canadian Armed Forces to defeat fascism in World War II.

The UCC has been given official recognition by Canadian governments since WWII, which helped these Nazi collaborators expropriate the legitimate Ukrainian organizations established prior to World War II and their assets to form the UCC. Today with Chrystia Freeland in the position of Minister of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, their standing has been further enhanced to the level of involving them in official functions and even decision-making. The pro-Nazi UCC continues to be well-funded by the Government of Canada and appears to have been integrated into cabinet decision-making on Canada's participation in the U.S./NATO proxy war in Ukraine.[1]

The names of the suspected war criminals that Canada chose not to further investigate is not a private matter but a concern to all Canadians. This is true no matter who is added to the secret "consultations."

The Trudeau government is committing historical fraud when it tries to rewrite history to cover up the crimes being committed in the present. The government is desperate to hide that its open support for neo-Nazi ideology and forces in Ukraine in the present is a continuation of the history of support for Nazi collaborators and war criminals and honouring of Ukrainian war criminals and Nazi collaborators from World War II. This is crucial to maintaining its disinformation that the U.S./NATO proxy war to dismember and weaken Russia is about defending "freedom and democracy" and that the Russian aim of denazification of Ukraine is illegitimate.

The disinformation is also to deny the courage and sacrifice of the Soviet Union whose heroic peoples rose as one and broke the back of the Nazi war machine at tremendous cost, with the deaths of 26.6 million. The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic was an integral part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) whose people gave their lives to defeat Nazi-fascism. The vile distortion of history by the government of Canada, among others, is such that the Red Army which defended and liberated country after country is referred to as an "occupying" force while the Nazis are portrayed as "liberators."

The Trudeau government is in contempt of Canadians and Quebeckers who sent thousands of pages of messages and letters denouncing the standing ovation given by the entire Parliament as well as the Ukrainian puppet President Volodymyr Zelensky himself to Yaroslav Hunka, a former Nazi Waffen SS member. This only further reveals that the Liberals and other cartel parties are not worthy of ruling Canada and that their protection of the Nazi collaborators and promotion of the notion that Canada is a refuge for "victims of communism" is part of integrating Canada into the U.S. war machine and diverting attention from their crime of supporting the genocide against the Palestinian people.

Note

1. This November, while her fellow cabinet Ministers were heading to Azerbaijan for the COP29 Climate Change Conference to make their claims about reducing emissions from the oil and gas sector, Deputy Prime Minister Freeland was in Edmonton speaking to the UCC, where she proclaimed that Canada will be leading the charge to remove Russian oil from all world markets and replace it with oil from Alberta. She stated that "this is the first room where I will be talking about this."

(With files from True North, Esprit de Corps, Daily Beast, Ottawa Citizen.)

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This article was published in

Volume 54 Number 48 - December 12, 2024

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