How far will Canada’s Deputy Prime MInister Chrystia Freeland go to stop any inquiry into how Nazi Waffen-SS volunteer Yaroslav Hunka ended up in front of Canada’s Parliament to welcome Ukraine’s President Zelensky? Freeland has been Canada’s closest link to Ukraine, to the Maidan coup, and to Zelensky. It would be startling if she had not been involved in the staging of his visit. Further, Yaroslav Hunka had stated that he had joined the Waffen-SS’s Galizien Division due to the call of the Nazi-controlled Ukrainian Central Committee. That call was published by Freeland’s grandfather, Michael Chroniak, the editor of the leading Nazi-controlled Ukrainian-language publication.
It is not determined yet how far Freeland will go, but the story told by the Toronto Star (April 5, 2018) is a pretty good guide. The background is that, in the weeks after Freeland’s meteoric rise had made her Foreign Minister in January, 2017, Canadian papers had challenged Freeland’s whitewashing of her grandfather’s Nazi past. (They had actually used the 1996 research of Freeland’s uncle, research that Freeland, herself, obviously knew.) She simply launched a smokescreen, warning one and all of “Russian disinformation” — after all, that was the ‘soup du jour’ at the time in the 2017 US. However, Russia’s embassy in Ottawa denied that they were providing such disinformation. In late March, 2018, Canada’s Foreign Ministry expelled four Russian diplomats and the Foreign Minister. Freeland, issued a written statement saying that they had used their diplomatic status “to interfere in our democracy.”
No other explanation and her office was not forthcoming.
