Lesya Voronyuk, the founder of Vyshyvanka (Ukrainian World Embroidery) Day, claims that Liberal MP Yvan Baker cancelled her address to parliament and blocked her from speaking. On Facebook, Voronyuk alleged that her cancellation was for participation in the sale and distribution of the infamous t-shirt worn by Stepan Bandera, the Nazi ‘OUN-B’ leader. Banderite ideology is the prevailing ideology of the Nazi Ukrainian state post 2014 coup.
Yvan Baker has himself has many skeletons in the closet on this subject, and he has reason to want the closet to stay closed. Yvan Baker himself had roles in the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) during outrageous commemoration of Nazi divisions at Toronto-level in 2007 and federal level in 2010, and was an attending MP at a commemoration of the Ukrainian Nazi division during the UCC Toronto branch’s 2021 Remembrance Day ceremony. Baker has still, to this day, never condemned parliament’s honouring of Ukrainian Nazi, Jaroslav Hunka.
Baker’s mother, Myroslavia Oleksiuk, was also a notable member of the UCC during her heyday and the co-founder of an infamous Banderite newsletter named E-Poshta. So, after the Hunka incident in parliament opened up a can of worms, MP Baker likely determined that the less attention towards Ukrainian Nationalists, and himself especially, the better.
Lesya Voronyuk was very upset about her opportunity to speak in the Canadian parliament being cancelled. She complained that the World Embroidery Day event, including the speech, took three months to prepare, but that the speech was abruptly cancelled only three days in advance. She voiced her displeasure on Facebook in a long diatribe, which finishes with her lamenting about “Ukrainians [who] cancel their own Ukrainians.” Some of the points she made were very ironic. (more...)
Liberal MP allegedly cancelled Banderite speaker’s Parliament speech
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