The Canada Files has reviewed footage of Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Toronto branch's 2021 Remembrance Day, that shows the honouring of 14th Waffen SS division veterans via holding up a flag of its direct successor the 'First Division of the Ukrainian National Army'. The Ukrainian 'National Army' was created in 1945 on Nazi Germany's orders).
This matched footage contained in a separate now-deleted 2023 video released by UCC Toronto in promotion of its upcoming Remembrance Day ceremony (originally shared by independent researcher Moss Robeson), to be held on November 4, 2023.
The UCC Toronto’s now-deleted promo video is all the more remarkable, as it came more than two weeks after the Nazigate scandal occurred, where Canada’s parliament honoured 98-year old Nazi Jaroslav Hunka, who volunteered and fought for the Nazi Waffen SS 14th division.
The UCC itself was formed in 1940 on the initiative of the Canadian government, bringing together a collection of outright fascist, monarchist and far-right Ukrainian Canadian groups, to serve as a counterweight to the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians which was pro-Soviet (and would soon afterwards have its assets stolen by the Canadian government and given to the UCC). The UCC would go on to campaign “to have Canada accept members of the Waffen-SS’s Galicia Division” and “represented Waffen SS members who came to Canada after World War II.” Canada would, from 1947 on, actively seek out European Nazi SS veterans to import into Canada and pulled the supposed restriction on Nazi volunteers from immigrating to Canada in 1950. (more...)
UCC Toronto event containing honouring of Nazi SS division attended by MP Yvan Baker, CAF members
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