‘It was the only option’: Rota resigns as House Speaker after Nazi incident has ‘soiled’ Commons Chamber, ‘heart of Canadian democracy’
The incident ‘touched a nerve’ with the Jewish community, said former Bloc Québécois MP Richard Marceau, who now works with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs.
It took four days from when a Nazi solider was honoured in the House of Commons to when the Speaker who welcomed him offered his resignation—but that outcome was always going to be the case because “it was just not tenable for him to stay there,” say observers.
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