Canadian Polish Congress

The Canadian-Polish Congress (Polish: Kongres Polonii Kanadyjskiej, KPK, CPC) is a Canadian not-for-profit organization.

[1][2][3] The organisation listed on the WM Fares Wall of Tribute[4] was founded in 1944,[5] it is the main advocacy group for the Polish community in Canada and promotes awareness of Poland's history and cultural heritage, and the contribution of Polish Canadians to Canadian institutions, culture and society.

[6][7][8][9] Its subdivided area of activity spreads all over Canada and includes districts of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

[14] In the 1950s, under the presidency of Tadeusz Brzeziński, the KPK was involved in the transfer of the Wawel Castle treasures and a number of Chopin manuscripts, under its safekeeping since World War II, to Poland.

[18] In 1981 and 1982, the KPK staged widespread protests in Canadian cities in support of Solidarity and in opposition to the Soviet Union and the imposition of martial law in Poland.

[14] The KPK is engaged in information-providing and anti-defamation activities, and was instrumental in securing two rulings by the Ontario Press Council regarding the misuse of “Polish concentration camps.”[26][21] The KPK has advocated that a central focus of the "mass atrocities section" in the Canadian Museum for Human Rights should be on "the injury caused to Poles and other Eastern Europeans by Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia".