The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, is the proud granddaughter of another Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and associates with Ukrainian ultranationalists, up to & including personally holding the black-and-red flag of the UPA (the only WW2-era Ukrainian faction even worse than the literal SS volunteers). There's a very good chance that the Liberals up to the Prime Minister's Office knew full well what Yaroslav Hunka was and approved this whole shebang under the belief that people would be too stupid to notice and/or it'd all blow over in a weekend without any real consequences. Since things didn't pan out that way, they're now throwing Rota under the bus as their scapegoat.
The Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, Chrystia Freeland, is the proud granddaughter of another Ukrainian Nazi collaborator and associates with Ukrainian ultranationalists, up to & including personally holding the black-and-red flag of the UPA (the only WW2-era Ukrainian faction even worse than the literal SS volunteers). There's a very good chance that the Liberals up to the Prime Minister's Office knew full well what Yaroslav Hunka was and approved this whole shebang under the belief that people would be too stupid to notice and/or it'd all blow over in a weekend without any real consequences. Since things didn't pan out that way, they're now throwing Rota under the bus as their scapegoat.