“We have ensured that senior officials are examining the matter very carefully, including going through the archives, and making appropriate recommendations to the ministers concerned,” the prime minister said upon his arrival at the Liberal caucus meeting on Wednesday morning.

One of the ministers concerned, Marc Miller of the Immigration Department, showed the same openness a few days ago. He repeated it on Wednesday. “We have to see if we can release these documents,” he said, citing “impunity.” [n’était] no option.”

But he noted that this will “require sensitivity and some time” from the officials who will be responsible for determining what can and cannot be released in order to shed light on “Canada’s dark history with Nazi reception.” throw.

The Deschênes Commission, founded in 1986 under Brian Mulroney, published its report in 1986. One of the two parts of the report, which contains the names of the Nazis who allegedly emigrated to Canada, is secret.

Jewish organizations such as B’nai Brith and Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies are pushing for full disclosure. This appeal was raised again after Jaroslaw Hunka, a former member of the Waffen-SS, was given an ovation in parliament on September 22nd.

The affair led to the resignation of the speaker of the lower house, Anthony Rota, who had invited the 98-year-old to a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. She also forced Justin Trudeau to apologize on behalf of Parliament.

And since then, the Russian propaganda machine has been in full swing. The Kremlin, which portrayed its full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a “special operation” to “denazify” its neighbor, is stepping up its volleys against Canada.

The spokeswoman for Vladimir Putin’s regime, Maria Zakharova, wrote again on X this Tuesday: “The whole world saw it.” [Volodymyr Zelensky] applaud the veteran of the 1st^D SS Galicia Division Jaroslaw Hunka in the Canadian Parliament.