Canadian Parliament Nazi Standing Ovation and Anthony Rota Resignation
The Canadian Parliament faced international backlash after Speaker Anthony Rota invited 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, a former member of a Nazi Waffen-SS unit, to a speech by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Rota resigned following the incident, while Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued multiple apologies to Jewish, Polish, and LGBTQ+ communities. Critics noted the irony of Trudeau blaming Russian disinformation for the scandal while the event was broadcast globally.
canada· anthony rota· yaroslav hunka· volodymyr zelensky· justin trudeau· yom kippur· poland
00:00 Nah, we don't, uh, just, just, uh, no, don't worry about it. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday, September 28, 2023. This is your award-winning Gibbon Nation Media Assassination Episode 1594. This is no agenda. Dodging the large language models and broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA Region Number 6 in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley where we've noticed they've gone nuts in Canada, I'm John C. Dvorak. This is the best, the best thing that could have happened. Hey, you know Canada wants to get more coverage on our show. Yeah, they'll do anything. It's absolutely the best. And we saw this happen. I kept getting on notes from people. I'm like, well, we don't really have any reports.
00:56 I'll just kick this off with two short ones from ABC. So here's earlier in the week. Also in Canada, an uproar after a former Nazi got a standing ovation in the Canadian parliament. It all started when Ukraine's president spoke to lawmakers. Then the Speaker of the House praised a 98-year-old Ukrainian man who once served in a Nazi unit accused of genocide. The man's past had apparently not been vetted. The Speaker apologized but is facing calls to resign. And then the next report. There's new fallout after a former Nazi was invited to the Canadian Parliament and got a standing ovation. It happened while Ukraine's president was visiting. The Speaker of the House who invited the 98-year-old former Nazi from Ukraine has now resigned for not properly vetting that guest. I have the poignant clips including three.
01:49 kind of chronological cliffs because Trudeau said one thing, then he came out and said another thing, and then he came into the front of the house. But what was wrong with that report, and it was a classic example of mishandled, he got two standing ovations, not one. Can I just say one thing? That whole parliament, everybody there should just be wiped away. They're all dumb. How dumb are these people? Don't you? First of all, it's not the Russians, it was the Soviets. They're dumb. They're completely brainwashed and stupid. As I pointed out in the newsletter in one of the photos, these people giving the standing ovation, including members of the military, high-ranking members of the military that were sitting next to this guy,
02:42 clapping away like like like trained seals. Yeah, but not I mean, but literally hands above their head, you know, like, oh, yeah, yeah. F Russia, F Putin. Hello, dummies. And are they dumb? And I think you saw the speaker hesitate for a second. He had like this this little I think he realized when he when he was reading, you know, he fought against the Russians. Wait a minute, you could just see something in his brain. Well I have that, I have that. Alright, alright, I'll let you know. I didn't notice that, I thought he was just robotically reading what was put in. And by the way, before we play any of these clips, I've got four of them. Oh good. I think he was set up. There's no doubt in my mind that this whole thing was a set up to humiliate the Liberal Party.
03:35 Well that worked and they did some humiliation of their own later. Well their own party is the one that stood up and clapped the loudest and then the guy who is the the speaker of the house, not the speaker but the head of the opposition, he's just all in on this war you can tell when you hear him. I've got a clip of him too. That's not a bad theory that you have there that this was set up not to get rid of the speaker per se but to embarrass the liberals in the Liberal Party. It embarrassed both parties, but it embarrassed the government of Canada. Yes, yes. And how did it come to be? We've never had a full explanation, supposedly some speakers had a friend and somebody suggested it. This sounds like a setup to me. It started with, no I noticed him in the gallery, oh boy, look there's my guy, 98 years old, Nazi hunter. I mean, oops.
04:33 Okay, so we start with this is the truth is the how Trudeau house speaker is the trigger This is the speech that highlighted him and got him to two rounds of standing ovations We have here in the chamber today Ukrainian Canadians Ukrainian Canadian World veteran from the Second World War who fought the Ukrainian independence against the Russians oops and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98 He's a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service. Thank you. So that was Trudeau? No, no, no. That was the Speaker of the House. Oh, okay. I was confused. Oh, hold on a second. He has a sound, I know he sounds like him. Yeah. It could have been, I mean, the voice is almost identical.
05:35 But no, that was not Trudeau. So here's Trudeau right after this happens. This is the first thing Trudeau does when he freaks out. And this is this is Trudeau Nazi apology. Obviously, it's extremely upsetting that this happened. The speaker has acknowledged his mistake and has apologized. But this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada and by extension to all Canadians. I think particularly of Jewish MPs and all members of the Jewish community across the country who are celebrating Yom Kippur today. I think it's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation, and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine, as we did last week with announcing further measures to stand with Ukraine in
06:32 Russia's illegal war against it. Hey, happy Yom Kippur everybody! Russia bad! Did that one end with the Russia disinformation? Yeah, that's how it ended. Yeah. Yeah, right. Well, so then he has to backtrack on that because he got a bunch of flack from But before he goes in front of Parliament, I'm a we have producer Nicholas sent me this note with a timeline wait Nick sends you stuff to He does the all these guys do this They're all bipolar. I know they send stuff to me. They send stuff to you I mean we do have some of the same clips which people you got to be careful if you send it to both of us Then send it often doesn't get played at all right, but that's only if we're both on the email But they send it to you and send it to me separately then we actually both wind up with the same clips Yeah, yeah, don't do that. Don't do that people they choose one and
07:34 So he goes on, he mentions that the Polish ambassador made a plea for an apology from the government that recognizes Polish grievances. And then I guess the Roter resigned. Roter resigned after this, the clip we just heard, you know, he says, well, he's still there. Then he resigned afterwards and after he resigned we got the second version of the same apology by Trudeau. And this is Trudeau's Nazi revised apology. In this case what he did was he took in everybody who felt aggrieved and even people who didn't feel aggrieved. He put them on this list of I'm sorry to you and you and you and you and you.
08:12 In a few moments, I will address the House in front of all Canadians, in front of Jewish people here and around the world, and Ukrainians, to offer Parliament's unreserved apologies for what happened on Friday. The Speaker was solely responsible for the invitation and recognition of this man, and has wholly accepted that responsibility and stepped down. 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. It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust, and it was deeply, deeply painful for Jewish people.
09:01 It also hurt Polish people, Roma people, 2SLGBTQI plus people, disabled people, racialized people, and the many millions who were turned... No, no, no, stop. No, no, this is edited. This is edited. He did not say two-spirit people, disabled people. Did he? Yes. No. It's not edited. Believe me. This is crazy. Let me hear this again. And it was deeply, deeply painful for Jewish people. It also hurt Polish people, Roma people, 2SLGBTQI plus people, disabled people, racialized people, and the many millions who were targeted by the Nazi genocide. Nicholas, you're off my list. I can't believe you gave that clip to John.
09:48 No, he didn't give me any clips. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. All right. He's back on the list. This is dynamite. In fact, I got to give this to you right away. I mean if you told me that was AI, I would have believed it too. That's crazy. He went nuts. The Nazis were going after two-spirited people? Really? We had two spirits back in the day? Oh yeah. Everything in between. Wow. So then he goes to Parliament. How about dwarfs? We should have had the dwarfs. You're right, because dwarfs would have been on the list. He's got to go back and redo this. He said Roma, so he just said gypsies. Anyway, I'm sorry. I'll be quiet now. That's crazy. What an idiot.
10:31 So then he goes to the guy, the head of the opposition, whose Pierre, his last name is, I had it written down and I put it on the other desk, but it's an interesting name. Pauly, Paulie, Paulie or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Paulie. I think that Paulie. He condemns Trudeau and then Trudeau comes in and now you hear the apology, the official apology in front of Parliament and it's lame. It was the personal responsibility of the Prime Minister to invite President Zelensky to the floor of this House of Commons. It was his personal responsibility to make sure it was a diplomatic success. It was his personal responsibility to continue to lead the government that has the security
11:20 intelligence and diplomatic agencies that could have and should have vetted all individuals who were present and recognized. Yet this Prime Minister allowed for a monumental, unprecedented and global shame to unfold in this chamber. Will he take personal responsibility for this shame and personally apologize on behalf of himself? This is me, bro. On behalf of all of us in this house, I would like to present unreserved apologies for what took place on Friday and to President Zelensky and the Ukrainian delegation for the position they were put in. For all of us who were present to have unknowingly recognized this individual was a terrible mistake and a violation of the memory of those who suffered grievously at the hands of the Nazi regime.
12:20 APPLAUSE Canada, I love you. So that was that and so we have one more go around. This is obviously question time. They do this in England, they do it in Canada. And here he comes back up and to see if he can clarify a little bit. He gets nothing. I could have gone on longer with this but this will be the final clip because it just ends, pretty much ends here with Trudeau apologizing on behalf of everybody not himself. The Honorable Leader of the Official Opposition. Did the Prime Minister's national security, intelligence, or diplomatic officials vet the names of the people that the Prime Minister allowed within mere feet of President Zelensky? The Honorable Prime Minister. What? Mr. Speaker. The
13:22 Privilege and responsibilities and rights of parliamentarians are sacrosanct. and that the Leader of the Opposition would be suggesting that any visitor to this House should be vetted by the government of the day is actually a grievous attack on the rights and privileges of Parliamentarians. However, if the Leader of the Opposition or the Speaker or anyone wants our intelligence agencies to vet any of their guests, we would be more than happy to do that in respect of parliamentary rights.
13:58 The Honorable Leader of the Official Opposition. Well, there's one thing for sure, is this distracted from the former Indian diplomat who claimed that Trudeau's plane at the recent G20 meeting was full of cocaine. You hear about this? No, I missed that one. So it obviously did distract. Oh yeah, no, it totally distracted from that. There was one thing that was fun. One of the Canadian Liberals from the Liberal Party jumped up and suggested the following. ask for unanimous consent to adopt the following motion. That notwithstanding any standing order, special order or usual practice of the House, the recognition made by the Speaker of the House of an individual present in the galleries during the joint address to Parliament by His Excellency Vladimir Zelensky be struck from the appendix of the House of Commons debates of Thursday, September 21st, 2023 and from any House multimedia recording. Thank you.
14:58 They want it erased? This by the way, this was semi-scandalous that she did this. Of course it is! That's insane! Oh we got to delete it, get rid of it. Now what isn't happening, what should happen from this and you know the Simon Wiesenthal Center, of course they were all over Twitter X. You know, like, oh, this is insane, this is no good. I mean, I think that's where your setup was. But they need to go a step further. Where's the Azov Brigade? This is the moment to bring it in. Hey, there's still a lot of Nazi sentiment over there. There's people fighting on behalf of the Ukrainian army who have swastikas tattooed on their body and are very much in line with World War II Nazis. Yeah.
15:45 Of course. But who, why isn't anyone picking that up? Slow down the money. The money. Speaking of such. What are you trying to do? What are you on? Let's go to 60 minutes and talk about the money. The US has spent just over $43 billion on military aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded. I think it's more than that, isn't it? Or is that maybe just the military aid? And this is yeah, this is a number that the real number is over a trillion a trillion Yeah, really? I believe it's I believe this that's new to me. I've heard 150 billion I've heard but a trillion nah. No, I think it's why I think yeah
