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