Flowers for Hitler

 

These are strange days in Canada, getting stranger daily. The House of Commons recently gave two standing ovations to an unrepentant Nazi, a former soldier in the Waffen SS, of a unit implicated in some of the worst atrocities of the Holocaust. How did it happen?

I think we can take as given that they did not mean to do it. Once one member stands and begins to applaud, all other members will do likewise, unless they have some clear reason not to. For they are going to be grilled by the media and interest groups over why they did not. 

The Speaker, of the House Anthony Rota, has taken full responsibility, but claiming he did not realize just who he was introducing.

This sounds improbable; incredible. This was in the context of a state visit by Vladimir Zelensky, president of the Ukraine, in a time of war. Were guests not vetted by security services? It would be insane not to do so. Even without security services, the simplest of online searches would have revealed who Yaroslav Hunka was. Just the fact that he fought against Russia in the Second World War, the reason he was honoured by speaker Rota, was incriminating enough.

Moreover, some have pointed out from the video of the moment that Rota falters a bit when he reads that Hunka fought against Russia in the Second World War. His eyebrow goes up. He seems not to have been aware of this, and suspects something. Yet it is too late to pull out; he continues.

He is reading someone else’s words, and is surprised.

Lisa Raitt noes that, if some war veteran is introduced to Parliament, his regiment is cited, and where it fought. Details are omitted in Hunka’s case; whoever wrote Rota’s remarks seems to have known they would be a problem.

Rota has taken the fall; it does not seem possible that he was responsible.

Was it someone in his office setting him up? If acting alone, I don’t see the motive.

At the same time, it does not seem possible that the Trudeau government was trying to slip this by. They had little to gain by doing so—perhaps an extra pander to the Ukrainian-Canadian lobby, on top of the cheque to Zelensky--and too much to lose.

So whodunit?

It seems to me it must have been the security service itself; or the deep state, acting collectively. They must have vetted Hunka, known who he was, and set the government, Rota, and parliament up.

The security services seem to have turned on Trudeau; it was they who leaked the information about Chinese interference in Canada. Those leaks seemed coordinated and systematic, keeping the issue hot for week after week. This may be a continuation of the same campaign.

Why is the Trudeau government not pointing the finger at the real culprits?

Because the security services are already too powerful. As Scott Adams predicted, or observed, they were inevitably going to seize power in any government. The Deep State is and always has been the Liberals’ key constituency. The Liberals cannot turn on them.

At the same time, the Deep State may not need the Liberals. They may own the Tories too. Best, then, to make it clear to the Grits just who is boss. Pull the plug on the little jerk. And their recent leaks and this incident too, seem tailored to discredit parliament and our democracy itself, not just the current government.

It is eerie, as well, that the revelation that there are Nazis living peacefully and with honour in Canada also dovetails well with recent charges from the Indian government, made in response to Trudeau’s attacks over the murder of Najjar Singh. How far does this coordination spread?