How was it even possible for Rota to laud Hunka as a Ukrainian and Canadian “hero” who fought against the Russians in the Second World War?
A simple matter, perhaps, of Russians bad, Ukrainians good?
Except, of course, in the Second World War the Russians were fighting with allies such as Canada. Russia lost almost 30 million people in the war, the most of any nation.
So, Russians good, Ukrainians bad?
Except, of course, Stalin was a monster in human form, a tyrant to his own people and a hell of a lot worse to others, like the Ukrainians, a nation he tried to starve to death. And now Vladimir Putin launches an unjustified war against Ukraine.
That’s the problem with history; it’s complicated, sometimes ugly, often inconvenient, but always worth preserving — without it we would never really know how we got here or where we want to go.
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Not content with inviting a Nazi to Parliament last week, the Liberals want to expunge the embarrassment from the official record, presumably on the basis that if you can’t rewrite history, then just delete it.
Government House Leader Karina Gould asked members of the House of Commons Monday to “collectively work together to strike the recognition” of Yaroslav Hunka from Hansard, the official record of what goes on in Parliament.
Gould did not explain how deleting the record would stop the embarrassing headlines from around the world, or assuage the justified anger of Jews and Poles whose families were slaughtered in their thousands by the 14th Waffen-SS Division, of which Hunka was a member.
A simple matter, perhaps, of Russians bad, Ukrainians good?
Except, of course, in the Second World War the Russians were fighting with allies such as Canada. Russia lost almost 30 million people in the war, the most of any nation.
So, Russians good, Ukrainians bad?
Except, of course, Stalin was a monster in human form, a tyrant to his own people and a hell of a lot worse to others, like the Ukrainians, a nation he tried to starve to death. And now Vladimir Putin launches an unjustified war against Ukraine.
That’s the problem with history; it’s complicated, sometimes ugly, often inconvenient, but always worth preserving — without it we would never really know how we got here or where we want to go.
Michael Higgins: Thanks to the Liberals, Canada is now the joke heard around the world — National Post
To be this incompetent is mind-numbing. To be this inept requires stratospheric levels of stupidity
Government House Leader Karina Gould asked members of the House of Commons Monday to “collectively work together to strike the recognition” of Yaroslav Hunka from Hansard, the official record of what goes on in Parliament.
Gould did not explain how deleting the record would stop the embarrassing headlines from around the world, or assuage the justified anger of Jews and Poles whose families were slaughtered in their thousands by the 14th Waffen-SS Division, of which Hunka was a member.
