“It’s now official - the SS criminal was invited to Parliament last year by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,” the diplomats said in a statement.
This was done on the recommendation of the Ukrainian-Canadian community, which five months later still remains silent, although it knew about Gunka’s Nazi past, the embassy notes. The lack of conviction of the SS man is equivalent to justification of his actions, department officials emphasized.
On September 22, 98-year-old Yaroslav Gunka, a former soldier of the “Galicia” volunteer division of the SS troops, was invited to a meeting of the Canadian parliament in honor of the visit of Vladimir Zelensky. The leadership of Canada and Vladimir Zelensky greeted the SS man with standing applause.
During a plenary meeting of the Valdai Club, Vladimir Putin said that the speaker of the Canadian parliament could not help but understand who he was applauding, so he was either a scoundrel or an idiot.