Feds cite ‘immediate and present-day harm’ to U.S. ties as court orders release of some Nazi resettlement records
'A bald statement of ongoing ‘tensions’ between Canada and the United States is not a sufficient basis to refuse disclosure of very specific information,' the Federal Court ruled.
The federal government's reliance on hypothetical harms to the Canada-United States relationship and other shifting geopolitical tensions makes little sense in the fight to protect secrets about the resettlement of Nazis in Canada after the Second World War, say observers.
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