Canada’s top general needs to apologize for honouring a Nazi SS soldier

Even if one gives Gen. Wayne Eyre the benefit of the doubt for applauding in the moment, once the story broke, it became incumbent upon him to apologize for his misplaced tribute.

As Canada’s top soldier, General Wayne Eyre represents every serving member and veteran in the country and it’s a career officer of his rank would be so ignorant of military history as to not realize that Yaroslav Hunka must be a Nazi soldier, writes Scott Taylor.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SCOTT TAYLOR

October 2, 2023

OTTAWA—The dust has yet to settle on Canada’s blunder of honouring a Second World War Ukrainian Nazi soldier with two standing ovations in the House of Commons on Sept. 22.

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