Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during an event hosted by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky with the Ukrainian community residing in the North American country.
The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeauapologized, this Wednesday 27, for the tribute paid to Yaroslav Hunka, veteran of Ukraineoccurred during the president’s visit Volodymyr Zelensky to the North American country. The soldier fought with the Nazis in World War II. “I would like to offer my most sincere apologies for what happened on Friday the 22nd and for the situation in which President Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation were placed,” Trudeau told Parliament. “It was a terrible mistake and a violation of the memory of those who suffered cruelly at the hands of the Nazi regime.” Trudeau also said that this mistake “brought deep shame to Parliament and to Canada” and that he regretted it to all Canadians and Jews around the world. “This is an appalling violation of the memory of millions of people who died in the Holocaust,” he concluded. The Trudeau government has come under intense pressure on this issue. Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre described it as “the greatest diplomatic embarrassment” in Canadian history. Ukraine’s president visited Canada to bolster Western support against the Russian invasion.
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