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Video grab of Jaroslav Hunka in Canada’s Parliament<\/center><\/p>\n

A question: Is it the case that an individual member of an organization who rejects participation in the wider group’s malefaction is to be held equally culpable in the wider group’s evildoing just by virtue of affiliation?<\/p>\n

If so, this panders to the quilt by association fallacy.<\/p>\n

In Canada, the Justin Trudeau government has further sullied its reputation and the reputation of Parliament by having invited and feted the 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka as a “Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero” who had fought against the Russians.<\/p>\n

Yet, fighting against the Russians obviously meant that Hunka had to be fighting on the side of Nazi Germany. That fact seemed to elude the Canadian parliamentarians.<\/p>\n

This incident ripped the mask off Trudeau’s protecting “Canadian values,” causing the government to try and have the embarrassing episode struck from Hansard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“The fact that a motion from the government benches to suppress any official (Hansard) record of the incident being tabled does nothing but underscore its culpability in Canadian-Ukraine fascism,” said the ever insightful writer T.P. Wilkinson in an email.<\/p>\n

Canadian officials are concerned that the proper vetting of invitees to the Parliament was not carried out. A spokesperson for the speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, indicated that Rota had not shared his list of invitees with the Prime Minister’s Office or any opposition parties before the event. Rota had to take the fall, resigning as speaker.<\/p>\n

Was it political cowardice that caused Trudeau to duck the subsequent Question Period and evade fellow parliamentarians?<\/p>\n

Are there “good Nazis”?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hunka was a volunteer member of the 14th SS Division Galicia. The SS were notorious for committing war crimes.<\/p>\n

But does being a Nazi mean one is ipso facto<\/em> a war criminal, a scumbag, or some other nefarious descriptor?<\/p>\n

Wernher von Braun was a Nazi who was also a rocket engineer. The Americans brought him stateside where he later became a director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. Von Braun designed the Saturn V launch vehicle, the superbooster that would send Americans to the moon. The Americans, apparently, thought von Braun was a good enough Nazi to bring to US soil.<\/p>\n

What about Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who was the main protagonist in Stephen Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List<\/em>? Schindler was a member of the Nazi Party, but he is depicted as a humanitarian for helping Jews escape Nazi persecution.<\/p>\n

What about Dr. Hans M\u00fcnch<\/a>? Or Karl Plagge<\/a>, former commander of a Nazi forced labor camp? Or John Rabe<\/a>, an ardent Hitler supporter? Or Nazi party official Helmut Kleinicke<\/a> who Israel designated as Righteous Among the Nations in January 2020. These men have been described as “good Nazis.”<\/p>\n

Nazis are not alone in their monstrosity. To access the research findings of the notorious Japanese scientists of Unit 731<\/a> who carried out exceedingly cruel criminal experimentation on humans, the US government had them snatched from the docket of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and brought to America.<\/p>\n

Nazism and Chrystia Freeland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Canada, which had denied safe haven for over 900 Jewish refugees aboard the MS St Louis<\/em> in 1939 (an unsavoury incident for which Trudeau issued a formal apology in 2018), had for some reason seen fit to open its borders to allow several Nazis in.<\/p>\n

Nazism is strident in Canada.<\/p>\n

Currently, Ukrainian-Canadian Chrystia Freeland serves as number two in Canada’s government, deputy prime minister. This is despite critics branding her as sympathetic to Nazism<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russian officials are also critical of Freeland. Kirill Kalinin, a spokesman for the Russian Embassy in Ottawa, charged that Freeland<\/a> evaded revealing her grandfather’s complicity with Nazis during World War II.<\/p>\n

Freeland has brushed aside questions regarding her grandfather’s Nazi involvement as Russian disinformation designed to undermine Canadian democracy. Yet, on 7 March 2017, the Globe and Mail<\/em> reported<\/a> that “Freeland knew her grandfather was editor of Nazi newspaper.”<\/p>\n

The sins of the grandfather do not fall upon the granddaughter, but Freeland must have felt the pressure to publicly denounce Nazism. On 28 March 2019, the CBC quoted Freeland<\/a>\u00a0 as saying: “Neo-Nazis, white supremacists, ‘incels,’ nativists and radical anti-globalists who resort to violent acts are a threat to the stability of my country and countries around the world.”<\/p>\n

However, on 4 March 2022 Canadian Dimension<\/em> headlined an article<\/a>: “Chrystia Freeland\u2019s ties to Ukrainian nationalists reveal a double standard The deputy prime minister was photographed with a scarf associated with the Ukrainian far-right at a demonstration in Toronto.”<\/p>\n

Freeland deleted a tweet she had posted and relied again on the ad hominem<\/em> fallacy of Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n

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Canada\u2019s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland has now deleted her earlier post where she\u2019s holding a banner with the colours of a far-right group and replaced it with one where she isn\u2019t. pic.twitter.com\/UdxtmaCgJi<\/a><\/p>\n

— Paris Marx (@parismarx) February 28, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n