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The Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties
Association is ramping up its campaign to get all NKVD, KGB and
other Communist secret police veterans out of Canada.
UCCLA’s "No KGB In Canada!" involves thousands of its supporters
mailing in pre-printed postcards to Prime Minister Stephen
Harper, the Honourable Jason Kenney (Minister of Immigration and
Citizenship) and the Honourable Peter Van Loan (Minister of
Public Safety). The cards share a common message: "Veterans of
Soviet secret police formations like the NKVD, SMERSH and KGB
should not be allowed to enter Canada or to remain here. No
exceptions. Denaturalize and Deport them all, immediately."
UCCLA’s chairman, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, explained: "For years we
have alerted the Government of Canada, the RCMP and others to
the illegal presence in our country of veterans of the Soviet
secret police. We don’t know how many there are but some openly
boasted about their participation in torture and mass murder."
"While we have always championed the principle that any person
found in Canada alleged to be a war criminal should be tried in
a criminal court, politics is the art of the possible. Since the
federal government insists upon using denaturalization and
deportation for dealing with persons who should not be in
Canada, we call upon Ottawa to apply its preferred standard in
every case, without exceptions. There should be no KGB men in
Canada, not now, not ever. Indeed Canada should not be a haven
for anyone who admits that they were involved in war crimes,
regardless of their ethnic, racial or religious heritage, their
ideological convictions, or the period or place where they
committed or enabled such crimes against humanity. Justice
cannot be selective."
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