This is a relatively uneven chronicling of the supposed ease by which Nazi war criminals allegedly gained entry to Canada following WW II, and of the events surrounding the Deschenes Commission Of Inquiry, established by the Mulroney government in 1985.

In this instance I can speak with some fair amount of inside knowledge as I was one of the primary Immigration Department witnesses before the Inquiry and, consequently, I am mentioned in several areas in this book.

From my perspective the authors have gone out of their way to pound a square peg into a round hole by perpetuating inaccuracies in Mr. Matas' wild theories which, I thought, had been clarified by Justice Deschenes' Commission. For example, on page 31, the authors state, in reference to the war criminal Helmut Rauca, that his passage [to Canada] "was aided by the Canadian Christian Council for the Relief of Refugees."

I can recall vividly the day Mr. Matas came up to me in the foyer of the Supreme Court to show me a blow-up of the ship's manifest which chronicled Rauca's entry to Canada [this was before the advent of individual landing records]. The names were listed down the left side while across the top were columns for details such as date of birth, religion, sponsorship details, etc.

Referring to the latter, when I pointed out to Mr. Matas the initials "CCC" he immediately assumed it meant "Canadian Christian Council." And although I corrected that assumption by stating that, no, it referred to the "Canadian Council Of Churches", he maintains his original erroneous assumption in the book.

The Canadian Council Of Churches was a multi-denominational organization consisting of - among others - the Roman Catholic, Anglican, Presbyterian, and Jewish churches/synagogues.

Let's keep the record straight.