Liberal and Bloc Québécois MPs blocked a Commons committee motion asking the cabinet to disclose a secret blacklist of Nazi collaborators admitted to Canada after World War II.
NDP MP Niki Ashton, who introduced the motion at the Canadian heritage committee on Nov. 14, called for the release of information regarding roughly 900 individuals suspected of being Nazi war criminals who had entered Canada after 1945.
This list of suspected individuals was included in Part II of the 1986 report by the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, led by retired Quebec Superior Court judge Jules Deschênes. The commission was established to investigate claims that a considerable number of Nazi war criminals had gained admittance to Canada….