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Yaroslav Hunka waits for the arrival of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.Photo by Patrick Doyle /The Canadian Press via AP (File)
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The public debate over a Waffen SS member being given a hero’s welcome on Parliament Hill last month is over.
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Blacklock’s Reporter reports the House affairs committee dropped further public discussion into how Yaroslav Hunka, 98, of North Bay, was presented in this way to the Commons by his MP, then-Speaker Anthony Rota, on Sept. 22.
“What we have is the cover-up coalition at work yet again seeking to go behind closed doors rather than to deal with this matter openly and transparently to get to the bottom of one of the greatest international embarrassments,” said Conservative MP Michael Cooper (St. Albert-Edmonton).
But a majority of MPs voted instead to discuss the slip in private, then adjourned the meeting without comment.
Rota resigned Sept. 26 after saying he didn’t realize Hunka fought for the Germans in World War II.
Hunka volunteered with the 14 Waffen SS Grenadier Division and told the Ukrainian-language Combatant News in 2011 that he was interned as an enemy prisoner of war in 1945 but enjoyed “a profitable and affluent life in Canada.”
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