READ HERE: The speaker of Canada’s House of Commons, Anthony Rota, should step down for inviting a Ukrainian Nazi veteran to parliament and honoring him, Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk, has said.
The controversy first erupted last week when the Canadian parliament celebrated Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian who fought for the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, an infamous volunteer unit formed by Nazi Germany from mostly western Ukrainians in the second half of World War II. The commemoration took place as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky were delivering speeches in the House of Commons.