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Deputy PM says former Speaker Anthony Rota made a ‘grave error,’ but asserts that the Russian President was exploiting his mistake for propaganda purposes

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.

Peter Savaryn, former chancellor of the University of Alberta and veteran of Nazi-led division, was appointed to the order by governor-general Jeanne Sauvé

The fact that some Ukrainians collaborated with Nazis is no secret — but it’s been whitewashed and even celebrated in Canada.

The move has been condemned by Jewish groups who renewed calls for the monument at an Oakville cemetery to be taken down

On September 22, members of the Canadian Parliament provided a standing ovation for Yaroslav Hunka, a member of Nazi Germany's Waffen-SS during World War II. The event surrounded a visit to Ottawa by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky.

The university already returned $30,000 from the family of Yaroslav Hunka, a Waffen SS veteran who got a standing ovation in Parliament

Neither Yaroslav Hunka nor his family has spoken publicly since his appearance in Parliament, but an essay written by Hunka more than a decade ago offers insight into his role in Nazi-commanded unit

In the decades following World War II, Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian fascists who had been accomplices of the Nazis in the mass extermination of European Jewry and Hitler's "war of annihilation" against the Soviet Union.

Why does Canada have not one but several memorials to Nazi collaborators? And why, when statues are toppling all over the world, have Canadian Jewish groups remained silent?