Winnipeg - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) urged the Government of Canada to terminate the use of denaturalization and deportation proceedings against Canadians who obtained Canadian citizenship half a century ago in a brief submitted to the Social Union Cabinet Committee of the Government of Canada.

In its brief to the Committee, the UCC noted that the Twentieth Triennial Congress of Ukrainian Canadians unanimously denounced the Federal Government’s War Crimes Policy, as it relates to WWII war crimes, as being fundamentally unjust.

This injustice stems from the fact that:

a) the government uses denaturalization and deportation proceedings against Canadians even though diere is no evidence that such individuals committed war crimes or crimes against humanity; and

b) denaturalizing Canadians who came to Canada half a century ago where there is no evidence of war crimes or crimes against humanity does not serve the interests of justice,

The UCC also indicated its interest in making a presentation to the Federal Cabinet Committee on this matter.

The UCC brief to the Cabinet Committee can be found on its web site at www.ucc.ca .