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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: The consequences of Parliamentâs âmind-bogglingâ ovation for former Nazi
Description: Artur Wilczynski has choice words to describe what happened in the Canadian House of Commons on Sept. 22, when lawmakers gave two standing ovations to a 98-year-old former Ukrainian solider who served with a Nazi unit during the Second World War. Wilczynski, a former diplomat and senior civil servant in Ottawaâand the grandson of a Holocaust survivorâcalls the scandal an âabsolute public relations disaster for Canada.â
Wilczynski was stunned as he watched the incident unfold during Fridayâs official ceremony in the House to welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Canada. After the leader of the war-torn country made his f...