The standing ovation given by Canada’s parliament to a Ukrainian veteran of the Waffen SS during President Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa last month became the impetuous for a reexamination of Canada’s policy toward WWII-era Nazi collaborators. But new research shows that the lionization of such odious figures isn’t just a dark legacy of the Cold War.
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Many understand that the House of Commons’ decision to honour Yaroslav Hunka should not be treated as a one-off lapse in judgement. Rather, as Owen Schalk explains, it was a shocking public exposure of the deep-rootedness of World War II revisionism in Canada, which is far more widespread than one official’s ill-advised invite to an old man in his riding.
Canadian authorities will delve into the archives of the commission headed by Jules Deschenes, which in the 1980s investigated the backgrounds of hundreds of people in the country accused of war crimes, the country s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.