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Canadian House Speaker apologizes for honouring Ukrainian who fought in Nazi unit in WW II | CBC News
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anthony-rota-ukrainian-veteran-apology-1.6977117
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Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologized Sunday for honouring a man who fought in a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
Rota was responding to condemnation from Jewish groups and others stemming from a moment during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Parliament on Friday.
I wish to make clear that no one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them," Rota said.
"The independent Speaker of the House has apologized and accepted full responsibility for issuing the invitation and for the recognition in Parliament.
“The fact that this individual, and by proxy the organization he was a member of, was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons is deeply troubling,” Dan Panneton, a director with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre, told CBC News on Sunday.
In a statement on Friday, Pierre Poilievre accused the prime minister of responsibility for the incident and called for him to apologize.
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