Supreme Court docket rejects appeal from musty Nazi interpreter, now faces deportation

Politics·Contemporary

Canada’s top court docket has decided no longer to listen to an appeal from a 95-twelve months-feeble ex-Nazi interpreter combating to preserve his Canadian citizenship, a decision that would possibly perhaps perhaps perhaps in a roundabout draw lead to Helmut Oberlander’s deportation.

Federal government is stripping 95-twelve months-feeble Helmut Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship

Kathleen Harris · CBC News · Posted: Dec 05, 2019 10: 54 AM ET | Last Updated: December 5

Canada’s top court docket has decided no longer to listen to an appeal from a 95-twelve months-feeble ex-Nazi interpreter who became once combating to preserve his Canadian citizenship.

The court docket’s choice draw the federal government is now obvious to starting up up deportation complaints in opposition to Helmut Oberlander.

The Waterloo, Ont., man has been engaged in a correct fight with the federal government since 1995, when the RCMP launched an investigation into his alleged involvement in war crimes at some stage in World Struggle II. That triggered a course of to strip him of his Canadian citizenship, which he has challenged throughout the courts.

In accordance to the summary of the case filed on the Supreme Court docket’s web self-discipline, right here is the federal government’s fourth are trying and revoke Oberlander’s Canadian citizenship on grounds that he “critically misrepresented his wartime activities” to Canadian immigration officers.

Oberlander has acknowledged he became once forcibly conscripted by the Nazis when he became once 17 years feeble.

As is atypical, the court docket didn’t give its causes for declining to listen to the case.

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