Deputy PM says former Speaker Anthony Rota made a ‘grave error,’ but asserts that the Russian President was exploiting his mistake for propaganda purposes
The UCC has responded to the political firestorm triggered by the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for the Nazi war criminal Hunka by forthrightly defending him and the “all-Ukrainian” Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
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.
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The Governor General s office has expressed its “deep regret” over having granted one of Canada s highest civilian honours, decades ago, to a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.