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Tensions flared in the House of Commons on Monday over opposition calls for House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota to resign after apologizing to the House of Commons for inviting, recognizing and leading the chamber in a standing ovation for a man who fought for a Nazi unit during the Second World War.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (11 children)

This is embarrassing. Russia is already taking advantage of it.

Russia blasts Canada over 'outrageous' reception in Parliament for Ukrainian who served in Nazi unit

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6977248

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov castigated Canada for 'sloppiness of memory'

Peskov is (ugh) right. How oblivious do you have to be to not clue in when this guy is announced as having fought against the Russians in WW2? Unless he's Finnish (which he is not), which side do you think that puts him on?

[–] SamuelRJankis 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Canadians really need to start voting for actual competent people instead of parties. Even the pretense of parading a Ukrainian guy around due to the Russian invasion is rather repugnant behavior.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

The problem is that if the candidate from Party "A" is a competent weasel who wants to undermine everything I stand for, and party "B"'s candidate is an incompetent boob who won't help matters but also is popular and won't actively ruin everything, then it's far more important to my interests that party "A"'s candidate not be voted in than it is to cast a vote for candidate "C". The system is working how is designed to and the only people who are capable of changing it are the ones benefiting from it being broken, so the only way that's likely to happen is if there were somehow a mass exodus away from the big two parties.

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