To comply, it follows that Canada must apply Article 49 equally to all states. Recently, the eminent legal scholar Prof. Eugene Kontorovich elaborated in detail how blatantly inconsistent was the application of Article 49 by numerous states. For Canada now to prohibit Jewish resettlement is to support a grave form of racial discrimination, prohibited by international law. Some rules of customary international law are so fundamental they can never be overridden, not by states, nor by courts, nor by institutions. Jason Reiskind, a specialist in international law formerly at the department of External Affairs (now Global Affairs Canada), was a Foreign Service officer and Justice Canada counsel.

Source: National Post January 31, 2017 20:09 UTC