2023-09-26 18:24:17
The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada announced his resignation on Tuesday after the scandal caused by the tribute paid to a Ukrainian veteran who fought with the Nazis during the Second World War, during the visit of President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“It is with a heavy heart that I rise to inform members of my resignation as Speaker of the House of Commons,” Anthony Rota told parliament, speaking of “his deep regret for his mistake.”
The latter had applauded on Friday Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian immigrant, whom he presented as “a Ukrainian-Canadian veteran of the Second World War who fought for the independence of Ukraine against the Russians » and “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero”.
But the association for the defense of the Jewish community in Canada, the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC), quickly noted that the guest had “served in the 14th Waffen Grenadier division of the SS, a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well documented.”
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