This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.
The Emergency Committee for Civil Rights had many prominent members, including executive members C.B. Macpherson, Leopold Infeld, and A.Y. Jackson.
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The Liberal candidate Thomas Kellock, a QC who had fought the seat at the previous general election, came in a distant second, with Labour candidate Clive Bradley, a barrister and journalist, forced into third place and losing his deposit.
James Lorimer Ilsley, the Acting Prime Minister of Canada, responded quickly to the situation and on 10 May appointed Justice Kellock to chair a Royal Commission into the disorders.