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Speaker's Nazi veteran invite 'profoundly embarrassing' Trudeau says, as Rota faces calls to resign (www.ctvnews.ca)
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Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.

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[–] streetfestival@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The controversy exploded over the weekend when it came to light that MPs from all parties, Trudeau and [president of Ukraine] Zelenskky honoured this individual with cheers, salutes and applause.

"We have here in the chamber today a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98," Rota said on Friday. "I am very proud to say that he is from North Bay and from my riding of Nipissing—Timiskaming. He is a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service."

I think this issue raises how complex political history is more than anything. And, yeah, MPs should probably have more guidance with this stuff. "Speaker invites Nazi" seems so 'gotcha!' without learning anything from the incident

[–] ThankYouVeryMuch@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol 'Ukrainian who fought the Russians in wwII' automatically makes him most likely a nazi, the political history is not complex at all here, they should have checked. I can't believe they didn't know.

[–] verve@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://web.archive.org/web/20090814153200/http://www.infoukes.com/galiciadivision/deschenes/

Canada says 'they did nothing wrong' besides yannow being nazis.
"We don't have proof they committed any war crimes"

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Oh well, as long as they only cheer for the good Nazis in Parliament...

They can't spin this not to look like a very stupid thing to do. And with Russia calling Ukraine a bunch of Nazis, while everyone calls Wagner a bunch of Nazis, and all the tensions around the rise of fascism around the world, it's really the worst time to make such a mistake.