David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen · Postmedia News | Posted: 19 minutes ago | Updated: 19 minutes ago | 4 Min Read
Hunka was being honoured during a visit to Canada by Ukrainian president Volodymr Zelensky. The honours on Friday for Hunka of North Bay, Ont., have sparked anger on social media andRota had invited Hunka to the Commons, calling him a Canadian and Ukrainian hero and he thanked him for his military service.
Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada Arif Virani said Tuesday that he can’t comment on Czarnek’s statement. No extradition request has been submitted yet and no one from the Polish government has contacted him, Virani added. In the 1980s, an examination of war criminals in Canada found there were 600 former members of SS Galicia Division still living in Canada. Justice Jules Deschenes, who headed the commission, concluded that membership in the division did not itself constitute a war crime.