With today’s denial of leave to appeal, and his Federal Court of Appeal file already closed, there are no further legal avenues of appeal. Canada may now move to deport Oberlander as has been the policy with alleged Nazi war criminals since Canada stopped prosecuting those crimes criminally in the 1980s. He lost his German citizenship in 1960. Mr. Oberlander has never been charged with any crime. For example, in 2001 his local MP Andrew Telegdi was threatened with expulsion from the party until he apologized for comparing Canada’s policy of stripping citizenship to Nazi tactics.

Source: National Post December 05, 2019 16:05 UTC