The Canadian parliament, on September 22, 2023, loudly and joyfully hailed a Nazi war veteran, a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) – you know, the one accused of mass murdering Jews, Poles and Ukrainians in Poland and Ukraine as well as committing other atrocities.
During Ukrainian President [V]ladimir [Z]elensky's visit to Canada, and following his predictably bombastic pan-handling speech, House Speaker Anthony Rota went on to gush praise over his guest, a Ukrainian-Canadian in parliament and calling Yaroslav Hunka, “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero” and thanking him for his service!
Preening Canadian lawmakers emphatically cheered and [Z]elensky raised his fist in acknowledgement as Hunka saluted from the gallery during not one but two separate standing ovations.
As Canadian researcher Tamara Lorincz noted, while everyone applauded the Ukrainian Nazi, “Not one MP called for peace, ceasefire and negotiations”.
Two days later, Rota issued an apology and two days afterward, he resigned from his post. In the meantime, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pleaded ignorance.
Whether Trudeau (and his Stepan Bandera-sympathizing deputy PM Chrystia Freeland) knew about Hunka or not, the question remains: why was he never brought to justice? He, or any of the other 2,000 SS Nazis Canada reportedly took in in the years following WW2. Having been accepted as anti-communist refugees with little to no scrutiny, these suspected war criminals and collaborators have been allowed to live out the rest of their days in peace, and most of them have done so openly under their own names, as the Simon Wiesenthal Center have repeatedly reported.
There is much to be said about Canada's history with Ukrainian Nazis. Not only did it take them in after WW2, but the government-backed Ukrainian Canadian Congress, which, until recently, listed Nazi-collaborator veterans’ organizations as members, as well as government-funded Ukrainian ‘youth centers’ that celebrate Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevich. There are even monuments honoring Nazi collaborators and Ukrainian Insurgent Army criminals still standing in Canadian cities.
And in case you don’t know, Canada has also supported modern-day Nazis in Ukraine itself, by training members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion on Canadian soil, although Canadian corporate media has in recent years attempted to downplay this.
This Nazi tribute is reprehensively repugnant and opprobriously offensive! Canada stinks to high heaven!
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