Deschenes rebukes Wiesenthal rep (11/09/86)

Deschenes rebukes Wiesenthal rep

CALGARY, Alta. - A federal inquiry investigating Nazi war criminals in Canada rebuked a Wiesenthal Center representative on October 31 for claiming to have a new list of 26 suspected war criminals believed to be living in Canada.

With less than one month to go before the Deschenes Commission is to submit its final report to the federal government, representatives of Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal gave the list to Justice Minister Ray Hnatyshyn, Solicitor General James Kelleher and Justice Jules Deschenes, the head of the one-man inquiry.

Deschenes Commission officials in Ottawa said the list identified only seven new suspects, and that 12 of them had been submitted to the federal probe in September by Sol Littman, the Canadian representative of the Vienna-based Wiesenthal Center.

The Deschenes Commission was established in February 1985 to determine how many war criminals entered Canada, how they got into the country and what can be done to bring them to justice.

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