How bad do our politicians need to get before we send them packing? Recently we watched our entire Parliament, led by the PM and Deputy PM, applaud and cheer Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old Ukrainian who “fought Russia” during the Second World War. Is it possible that our elected representatives, particularly the leader of our country, either forgot or never knew in the first place that Russia was an ally of ours during that war? Did no one stop to think, “Hey! If this guy was fighting Russia, then wasn’t he also fighting Canada? And if so, who was he fighting FOR?” And once the obvious was pointed out, what does our Prime Minister do? Well, first he waits five days, perhaps hoping that we will forget what happened. When that doesn’t work, he declares that the incident was “embarrassing for all Canadians,” shifting the blame to the rest of us.
The media carrying Trudeau’s water helps to scapegoat the Speaker, who at least had enough of a sense of shame that he resigned. Why do we put up with a government that seemingly cannot remember the fact that Canadian soldiers died by the thousands fighting the very Waffen-SS unit to whom this “hero” belonged? And why does our so called Fourth Estate, whose democratic duty used to include maintaining checks and balances on governments, play down the implications of this latest fiasco? Nothing to see here, folks—just a government that can’t remember anything that happened before February 2022, cannot see past the “current thing” (Russia bad; Ukraine good!) and which is now attempting to strike Hunka’s recognition from the official record of the House of Commons, banking on Canadians blissfully forgetting about THIS part of history as well.
When is enough, enough?
