Westley Wark, historian and security policy consultant, has a new post on his Substack about Nazi war criminals in Canada and a recent court decision granting more access to still-classified materials from the Deschenes commission on War Criminals in Canada and studies connected to it.
Wark, on the basis of great experience in historical records of Canadian security policy and practice, suspects there is not too much to be found in the still-secret materials. But he also notes the Canadian penchant for keeping things secret that do not need to be secret. There is a subtext here about Wark's history of Canadian security matters, which he researched on a classified basis and which has never been granted a proper publication -- at a time when British and American presses have long since published analogous histories of their own security services.
Where's the Wark history is a good question, and it should not all be up to Wark. Is some editor and publisher at an academic (or trade) publisher pushing to get hold of the manuscript and give it proper publication?
