Jane Stewart and Canadian Jewish Congress

Canadian Jewish Congress: It was back in 1989 when I first heard of the so-called kosher tax. Propagated by neo-Nazi and other anti-Semitic groups, it suggested that governments and citizens worldwide are tricked by international Jewry into paying a secret tax for kosher foods. Once collected, the hoax goes, these millions in revenue are funneled towards funding Zionist wars and causes, according to The Star. Indeed, in 1997 the Canadian Jewish Congress wrote to then-revenue minister Jane Stewart asking the government to make it abundantly clear that the tax was a fraud. The minister, to her credit, reacted swiftly with a statement that fully rejected the anti-Jewish hoax and warned of potential consequences and fines for those trying to claim a refund and Imagine my surprise to learn late last week that a woman running for the Parti Quebecois in the upcoming Quebec election, a philosophy professor at a college in Montreal named Louise Mailloux, has revived a slimy anti-Semitic hoax. Here in Canada this anti-Semitic canard would arise occasionally. In the mid 1990s it became so prevalent that even some legitimate accountants and bookkeepers were advising their clients to demand a $250 tax refund from Revenue Canada for unknowingly paying this secret levy. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.