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Canada’s disgrace: parliament’s Nazi celebration cannot be forgotten or forgiven
DAN ROSS, a community activist and Communist Party member based in Manchester, discusses why the Canadian parliament knew exactly what it was doing when it praised a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, and why it matters
Zelensky and Trudeau cheer Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, last Friday

THE Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has issued a quiet statement apologising for his astonishing praise for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament last week.  

Hundreds of Canadian MPs gave not one but two standing ovations to Hunka, a Canadian-Ukrainian veteran of the Nazi Waffen-SS Galizien division during the second world war (euphemistically described by AP News and others as the “First Ukrainian Division”).

Hundreds of Canadian MPs, including the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, gleefully smiling and applauding was a chilling spectacle.  

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