Back in 2021, the Canadian academic Eric Kaufmann wrote that his native country was swiftly becoming “the world’s first woke nation”. And over the last two years, it seems the trend has only accelerated.
In a recent article, Jordan Peterson identified Canada as being at “the forefront of the wave of woke lunacy threatening to swamp the entire Western world”. And in a speech earlier this month, retired General Michel Maisonneuve lamented that the “woke movement” is “destroying Canadian values”.
As we all know, the woke are notorious for branding those who disagree with them as ‘bigots’ or even ‘Nazis’. (This cartoon offers an amusing illustration.) So you’d assume the last thing they’d want is to be associated in any way with the actual Nazis from World War II.
Apparently not. On September 22nd, Justin Trudeau invited a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian man named Yaroslav Hunka to the parliament in Ottawa. Hunka was introduced as a “veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians”. Greeted with a standing ovation, he was described as a “Ukrainian hero” and a “Canadian hero”.
Left out was the fact that Hunka fought with the Nazis as a volunteer in the Waffen SS ‘Galicia Division’.
There seems to some dispute about whether or to what extent this particular unit was involved in atrocities. Wikipedia notes that although it “has not specifically been found guilty of any war crimes by any war tribunal or commission”, the unit faces “numerous accusations”, and goes on to list several atrocities in which it was allegedly involved.
What is true is that by the time the ‘Galicia Division’ was formed in 1943, the Nazis and their collaborators had already murdered hundreds of thousands of Hunka’s fellow citizens (mostly Jews and ethnic Poles). So regardless of exactly what his unit did during the war, fighting with the Nazis against the Soviets is hardly something a Western parliament should be honouring as “heroic”.
Indeed, “heroic” would have been to resist both the Nazis and the Soviets, as some Eastern European partisans did.
My point here is not that ‘Ukrainians are Nazis’. My point is that the Canadian parliament are taking us for fools. They honoured a man with ‘associations’ (to put it mildly) that in any other context they would have viciously denounced. Either that or they didn’t do basic due diligence.
Last year, Trudeau himself accused Conservative MPs sympathetic to the trucker convoy of standing with “people who wave swastikas”. So according to him, someone who fought with the Nazis (against a country with which the British Empire was then allied) is a “Canadian hero”, but truckers who opposed the vaccine mandates – well they’re the real Nazis!
My advice to Hunka, the former SS soldier: if you want to steer clear of controversy, don’t fraternise with Canadian truckers.
Stop Press: The speaker of the Canadian parliament has apologized and accepted responsibility for honouring Hunka. So it seems that neither Trudeau nor the Canadian parliament was aware of Hunka’s role in the Waffen SS. Was not a single parliamentarian just a little bit suspicious?
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My assumption is the parliamentarians did not know. Twitter did though, and very quickly. I also suspect Trudeau did. But that’s probably based more on my dislike for the little tyrant than any actual intelligence data. There are some very strange things going on. This whole Zelenski appointment of Marina Abramovic as an ambassador is more than a little weird.
Spirit cooking
Ambassador.
If Rothschild is bothered about anti-semitic conspiracy theorist rumours that he is an evil puppeteer ruling the world – probably best not to get photographed in front of a painting titled “Satan Summoning his Legions” with a self proclaimed dark magic witch!!!
Marvellous. So well posed.
He appears to have managed to summon the first two!
I don’t normally lose it but the downtickers really are a bunch of Next Tuesday’s.
Yes I don’t get it. All I have done is post facts. I haven’t made any assertions about those facts. Seems odd so many Daily Sceptic readers would take issue with that.
I’m baffled
Why can’t these people say what it is they object to?
Dubious connections that make Jimmy Saville look like a saint.
“There are some very strange things going on.”
That is entirely the point. All that is happening is intended to be Orwellian.
Castreau knew.
Castreau
Canadian ‘values’
Full throated roaring for a Nazi
Their deputy PM Freeland comes from the same stock
What a bloody disgrace
A country in massive decline
Again with the massive downticking! What’s going on with DS readers today? Some sort of rent-a-mob thing? Weird.
Probably the government’s 77th Brigade, which should tell you something!
By our standards, huge down ticking for comments on this Ukraine-connected article. Perhaps it’s Ian Rons and his pro Ukraine mob? Fair to say though that there is a lot of establishment weight thrown into supporting this mad proxy war against Russia, and the ‘it’s a good idea for Nato to surround Russia and neutralise it before breaking it up and selling it to Blackrock’ brigade. Never forget – the alternative to this war would have been to stop shelling Luhansk and Donetsk provinces (ie civilians), grant them independence within Ukraine, and to enshrine Ukrainian neutrality, in military terms. That’s all Putin asked for in 2021.
There’s at least one Canadian who probably would not have applauded: (2) CAUGHT ON CAMERA: Pastor kicks out police without warrant from Passover service – YouTube
What a bloody insult to those Canadian lads who died in two World Wars.
Fair do’s, I understand that Adolf misgendered far fewer ppl than Winston, so what else is there to say?
…Don’t any of them have Google? It would have taken 2 minutes to find out who he is…..LOL!
They know they are supporting those people in Ukraine anyway..they all do…so we shouldn’t be very surprised…..don’t forget until the West’s apparent complete ‘amnesia’ about the Azov Battalion and the gnatzi far right elements in Ukraine…the USA Congress did not allow any weapons to go the Azov Battalion by law.
“This year, (2018) the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill signed into law last week stipulates that “none of the funds made available by this act may be used to provide arms, training or other assistance to the Azov Battalion.”
White supremacy and neo-Nazism are unacceptable and have no place in our world,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), an outspoken critic of providing lethal aid to Ukraine, said I am very pleased that the recently passed omnibus prevents the U.S. from providing arms and training assistance to the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion fighting in Ukraine.”
Anyway the complaints are already coming in…
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/jewish-group-demands-apology-after-mps-honoured-man-who-fought-for-nazis-1.6575593
OTTAWA – Several Jewish advocacy organizations condemned members of Parliament on Sunday for giving a standing ovation to a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
The Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies issued a statement
saying the division “was responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians with a level of brutality and malice that is unimaginable.”
It’s highly unlikely that the 14th division ever harmed black people so what’s the problem, why keep raking over the past? (sarc)
The sooner folks realise that MPs are just a bunch of grifting dilettantes the better. As for the downticking, I’d say the site is being trolled by a bunch of goons.
It would be funny it it were not so tragic! The Canadian Parliament member claimed he didn’t know who he was honouring. Well this has opened up a lot of eyes and hopefully has brought many people to their senses.
This guy was a volunteer in the Galician Einsatzgruppe of the Waffen SS.
Amongst their other actions was Babi Yar, one of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust.