More than 61 per cent of Quebecers polled said they’d never read a book about the Holocaust, compared with the Canadian average of 41 per cent. And 36 per cent of respondents from Quebec said they had never had contact with a Jewish person. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW“About 50 per cent of the students in the (Jewish) community go to Jewish school,” she said, adding there are few places where francophones outside Montreal can meet Jews. Other than Quebecers, the Canadians least likely to have learned about the Holocaust in school were from Ontario and Atlantic Canada, both at 31 per cent. Ontario respondents were the most likely Canadians to know someone who is Jewish — only 12 per cent of them said they have “never” had contact with a Jew.

Source: thestar June 30, 2019 22:40 UTC