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Trudeau Apologizes To Zelensky & Canadian Public For NaziGate, Quietly
Tells MPs Don't Speak About It

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Wednesday issued formal apology to
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over what's coming to be known
as the 'NaziGate' scandal. He indicated that this apology was sent
through diplomatic channels.

Trudeau confirmed this in a press conference regarding the House of
Commons' honoring a veteran of Adolf Hitler's Nazi forces as part of
last week's events centered on hosting Zelensky. "This was a mistake
that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada. All of us who were
in this House on Friday regret deeply having stood and clapped even
though we did so unaware of the context," Trudeau told reporters.

    TRUDEAU EMBARRASSES HIMSELF AGAIN OVER NAZI-GATE pic.twitter.com/BhQTdaazpn
    — The_Real_Fly (@The_Real_Fly) September 27, 2023

"It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people
who died in the Holocaust," he continued, in the statement which also
appeared to put sole blame on now resigned Speaker Anthony Rota.

98-year old Waffen-SS Galicia Division veteran Yaroslav Hunka is now
possibly being sought by Poland, and extradition proceedings are being
mulled in Warsaw.

Trudeau now says "Canada is deeply sorry" for involving Zelensky, who
along with all of Canadian parliament was seen enthusiastically
applauding Hunka with a standing ovation. Trudeau further called the
whole event "deeply, deeply painful" to Jewish people, Poles, Roma,
and the so-called "2SLGTBQIA+" "community" (yes, it's an official
Canadian govt designation, absurd as it is).

He also sought to assert (or rather deflect) once again that this
fiasco is playing into Russia's hands, which is seeking to
"politicize" it. Thus the prime minister is continuing to spin it as
somehow really a story of 'Russian disinformation'.

    Wow! "Trudeau apologizes after a Ukrainian Nazi veteran was
celebrated at Zelenskyy speech. Liberal caucus sources have told CBC
News that Trudeau told MPs Wednesday they should avoid speaking to the
press about Hunka's invitation and the subsequent fallout, and that
the media… pic.twitter.com/0SVZBaaP12
    — Ivan Katchanovski (@I_Katchanovski) September 27, 2023

But perhaps more interesting is what Trudeau and his staff are
reportedly telling members of parliament in private. They are to stay
"tight-lipped" in hopes that the scandal and international media
coverage will just 'go away'. According to Canada's national
broadcaster CBC:

    Liberal caucus sources have told CBC News that Trudeau told MPs
Wednesday they should avoid speaking to the press about Hunka's
invitation and the subsequent fallout, and that the media frenzy would
die down if they stayed tight-lipped.

    Trudeau's remarks come after Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre
said inviting Hunka to attend Zelenskyy's historic address to
Parliament is the "biggest single diplomatic embarrassment" in the
country's history.

    Poilievre is blaming Trudeau for the mishap, despite outgoing
Speaker Anthony Rota's assertion that he alone was responsible for
inviting Hunka.

But as GrayZone journalist Max Blumenthal points out, this may
actually be the tip of the iceberg for Canada's NaziGate...

    Canada's @cafreeland perpetuates her Nazi grandfather's legacy
through Ukraine proxy war

    After serving as one of Hitler's top Ukrainian propagandists in
occupied Poland, Michael Chomiak joined thousands of Nazi
collaborators on the ratline to Canada during the 1950s.

    Following… pic.twitter.com/u8m0mHogWO
    — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2023

Below is Blumenthal's full backgrounder on the disturbing associations
and past activism of Trudeau's Deputy Prime Minister & Minister of
Finance, Chrystia Freeland [emphasis by ZH]...

* * *

After serving as one of Hitler's top Ukrainian propagandists in
occupied Poland, Michael Chomiak joined thousands of Nazi
collaborators on the ratline to Canada during the 1950s. Following
Chomiak's death in 1984, his granddaughter, Chrystia Freeland,
followed in his footsteps as a reporter for various Ukrainian
nationalist publications.

Freeland was an early contributor to the Encyclopedia of Ukraine,
which was edited by her grandfather's former boss in Poland, the Nazi
collaborator and ethnic cleansing advocate Volodymyr Kubijovyč. Next,
she took a staff position at the Edmonton-based Ukrainian News, where
Chomiak had served as editor.

A 1988 edition of Ukrainian News featured an article co-authored by
Freeland, followed by an ad for a book called “Fighting for Freedom”
which glorified the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galician division. During
Freeland’s time as an exchange student in Lviv, Ukraine, she laid the
foundations for journalistic success. From behind cover as a Russian
literature major at Harvard University, Freeland collaborated with
local regime change activists while feeding anti-Soviet narratives to
international media bigwigs.

“Countless ‘tendentious’ news stories about life in the Soviet Union,
especially for its non-Russian citizens, had her fingerprints as Ms.
Freeland set about making a name for herself in journalistic circles
with an eye to her future career prospects,” the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation (CBC) reported.

Citing KGB files, the CBC described Freeland as a de facto
intelligence agent: “The student causing so many headaches clearly
loathed the Soviet Union, but she knew its laws inside and out – and
how to use them to her advantage. She skillfully hid her actions,
avoided surveillance (and shared that knowledge with her Ukrainian
contacts) and expertly trafficked in ‘misinformation.'”

In 1989, Soviet security agents rescinded Freeland’s visa when they
caught her smuggling “a veritable how-to guide for running an
election” into the country for Ukrainain nationalist candidates. She
quickly transitioned back to journalism, landing gigs in post-Soviet
Moscow for the Financial Times and Economist, and eventually rising to
global editor-at-large of Reuters – the UK-based media giant which
today functions as a cutout for British intelligence operations
against Russia.

When Freeland won a seat as a Liberal member of Canada’s parliament in
2013, she established her most powerful platform yet to agitate for
regime change in Russia. Milking her journalistic connections, she
published op-eds in top legacy papers like the New York Times urging
militant support from Western capitals for Ukraine’s so-called
“Revolution of Dignity,” which saw the violent removal of a
democratically elected president and his replacement with a
nationalist, pro-NATO government in 2014.

Weeks after she was appointed in January 2017 as Foreign Minister – a
post she predictably exploited to thunder for sanctions on Russia and
arms shipments to Ukraine – her grandfather’s role as a Nazi
propagandist in occupied Poland became the subject of a raft of
reports in the alternative press.

The Trudeau government responded to the factual reports by accusing
Russia of waging a campaign of cyber-warfare. “The situation is
obviously one where we need to be alert. And that is why the Prime
Minister has, among other things, encouraged a complete re-examination
of our cyber security systems,” Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale
declared.

    Read my full report on Canada's longstanding policy of training
and protecting Ukrainian Nazis - including the grandfather of the
country's second most powerful official https://t.co/uXOsugSYka
    — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 27, 2023

Yet few, if any, of the outlets responsible for excavating Chomiak’s
history had any connection to Russia’s government. Among the first to
expose his collaborationism was Consortium News, an independent,
US-based media organization. For her part, Freeland deployed a
spokesperson to lie to the public, flatly denying that “the minister’s
grandfather was a Nazi collaborator.”

When Canadian media quoted several Russian diplomats about the
allegations, Freeland promptly ordered their deportation, accusing
them of exploiting their diplomatic status “to interfere in our
democracy.” By this time, however, her family secrets had tumbled out
of the attic and onto the pages of mainstream Canadian media.

On March 7, 2017, the Globe and Mail reported on a 1996 article in the
Journal of Ukrainian Studies confirming that Freeland’s grandfather
had indeed been a Nazi propagandist, and that his writing helped fuel
the Jewish genocide. The article was authored by Freeland’s uncle,
John-Paul Himka, who thanked his niece in its preface for helping him
with “problems and clarifications.”

“Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian
grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied
Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War,” the Globe and
Mail noted. After being caught on camera this September clapping with
unrestrained zeal alongside hundreds of peers for a Ukrainian veteran
of Hitler’s SS death squads, Freeland once again invoked her authority
to scrub the incident from the record.

Three days after the embarrassing scene, Freeland was back on the
floor of parliament, nodding in approval as Liberal House leader
Karina Gould introduced a resolution to strike “from the appendix of
the House of Commons debates” and from “any House multimedia
recording” the recognition made by Speaker Anthony Rota of Yaroslav
Hunka.