Thread: Canada's parliament speaker apologizes after honoring Nazi-linked veteran

The applause came as President Volodymyr Zelensky visited the Canadian parliament on Friday, as Speaker of the House Anthony Rota paid homage to Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian immigrant.


Rota hailed Hunka as "a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians" and "a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero."


The remarks ignore "the horrific fact that Hunka served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well-documented," the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) said Sunday.


The Jewish advocacy group called the incident "shocking" and "incredibly disturbing".


Canada's parliament speaker apologizes after honoring Nazi-linked veteran

Ironically a unit decimated on the russian front in Ukraine

Anthony Rota has resigned as speaker after inviting the former Nazis lover to the house. Liberals have taken a huge hit.
Trudeau has also just apologized.

Anthony Rota resigns as Speaker after honouring Ukrainian veteran who fought with Nazi unit | CBC News


Trudeau also apologizes to the public today. The Conservatives will not let this go easily, rightfully so.

A 5 minute vid which should be only 2:30. Time to dump the 2 official languages nonsense.
The 22% French speakers need to learn English!

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Anthony Rota has resigned as speaker after inviting the former Nazis lover to the house. Liberals have taken a huge hit.
Trudeau has also just apologized.




Trudeau also apologizes to the public today. The Conservatives will not let this go easily, rightfully so.

MM, MM , MM. This ain't some Nazi lover.

Yaroslav Hunka is a Ukrainian-Canadian World War II veteran of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a military formation of Nazi Germany.[a] Hunka was born in Urman, then part of the Second Polish Republic, and volunteered for SS Galizien in 1943. He immigrated to Canada after the conclusion of the war.

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Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

inviting the former Nazis lover to the house.

I thought she said they invited his lover to the house. Still sexually active at 98 would be quite the feat.

^^I guess my sarcasm didn't come across. I think Trudeau has shot himself in the foot with that video as he was apologizing on behalf of all Canadians, but he didn't actually apologize for himself.. Even though he isn't the speaker of the house (who resigned), he is still the leader who should have known better. I really don't see him getting in when there is an election which may come sooner than later.

Originally Posted by Norton

A 5 minute vid which should be only 2:30. Time to dump the 2 official languages nonsense.
The 22% French speakers need to learn English!

Haha, have you been to Ottawa? It is really bilingual and most good jobs (esp. government) you need to be bilingual. Even many schools now are teaching French immersion starting in grade 1. I know quite a bit of French, but not truly bilingual, but it seems there is a huge French teacher shortage here.. and I end up teaching French a lot as a supply teacher.

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You love Trudeau. He's single now, did you send him a picture of your udders yet?

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

Haha, have you been to Ottawa?

Nope. No need. I've been to Moose Jaw.

Originally Posted by pickel

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You love Trudeau. He's single now,

I don't really love him, I think now is his time to get out....but don't want the conservatives in either.
He isn't that bad looking though.. rumour is he had an affair with someone in the house.

The woke world of Justin Trudeau

Justin Trudeau has said it’s “deeply embarrassing” that the Canadian parliament gave a standing ovation to a Second World War veteran last week – without realising that the veteran had fought for the Nazis. True enough, it was embarrassing. But then, so was Mr Trudeau’s apology.

The blunder, said the Canadian prime minister in a televised statement, “was deeply, deeply painful for Jewish people. It also hurt Polish people, Roma people, 2SLGBTQI+ people…”

The last item on that list, I imagine, will have brought many people in Britain up short. They’ll be thinking: “Isn’t it ‘LGBTQI+’? What does the ‘2S’ at the front stand for?”

The answer is “two-spirit”. This group is little-known in Britain, because it’s exclusively North American. Its members are indigenous Native Americans who believe that their body contains both a “masculine spirit” and a “feminine spirit”.

As with all minority groups, they of course deserve our respect. None the less, I don’t think it would be unkind to ask Mr Trudeau how many two-spirit people he thinks were persecuted in Nazi Germany.

I’m no historian. But, to my knowledge, Native American reservations were reasonably rare in 1930s Europe. The Apache were seldom to be found hunting buffalo through the streets of Berlin. Totem poles remain an uncommon sight in Vienna.

Why, then, did Mr Trudeau include Native Americans in his apology to the victims of Hitler? We know that the Nazis persecuted gay people. So why didn’t he just say “gay people”?

The reason is that, in the progressive circles Mr Trudeau inhabits, you can’t just say “gay people” any more, because it’s considered insufficiently inclusive. You must always reel off the full list of sexual minorities and gender identities. Which is why the two-spirit community had to be cited as victims of Hitler – regardless of whether Hitler had actually heard of them.

Watching Mr Trudeau, people in the rest of the world may wonder why Canadians keep voting for this simpering ninny. I think I can guess. As anyone who has visited Canada will know, Canadians are the nicest, kindest and politest people on earth. So they probably can’t bear to vote him out, in case it hurts his feelings.

The Telegraph

the man is a demented fool.

^ Got Frenchie in him.

Originally Posted by MarilynMonroe

I know quite a bit of French, but not truly bilingual, but it seems there is a huge French teacher shortage here.. and I end up teaching French a lot as a supply teacher.

Suppose it couldn’t be any worse than your English teaching.