Mr. Speaker: "And we thank him for all his service"...

Oops.

A Trudeau and Canadian Ukrainian Nazi apologist said this:

https://twitter.com/thevivafrei/status/

1706530982801834061

Hmmm.

My father was born in northern Italy in 1927. The year Benito Mussolini delivered this fiery speech. In pretty good German no less.

You know what though? In 1942, at the age of 15, during which time Nazi forces occupied northern Italy, my father did not join Mussolini's Black Shirts.

Nor did he try to enlist in Mussolini's Fascist military.

Nor did he elect to kill his immediate family members, relatives and friends in order to placate Hitler and Mussolini and potentially save his own skin.

Instead: He joined the Partigiani, aka the northern Italian resistance.

My maternal grandfather did not join Mussolini’s Fascist army, or murder his family, relatives and friends during the time in which German Nazi forces occupied his farm village either.

One of my mother's childhood memories is being rounded up by Nazi soldiers and marched into the village piazza where she, her mother and brothers and sisters were forced to witness mass executions by hanging.

When she looked up in fear and horror, she recognized her cousin’s boots.

My point, I suppose is:

Under Nazi occupation, northern Italian citizens were forced to do a great many unpleasant things including feed and house German soldiers.

In my mother's family: 8 children, 2 parents, and 2 grandparents went hungry, a lot, and slept on hay in the cow stall next to their kitchen.

None of my mother's immediate family were killed by the Occupying Forces with the exception of her unfortunate cousin.

I imagine he, like my mother's 2 oldest sisters, was taken to Treviso and questioned for 3 days.

Her sisters were made to walk back home upon their release.

Most civilians who were not convicted of being “spies” for the Americans, or saboteurs, made it through the German Occupation unless they died of disease, starvation or had a bomb dropped on their “blacked out” farmhouse when American fighter planes were low on fuel and forced to lighten their loads in order to make it back to base without crashing. (Another of my mum's war stories.)

But I digress.

Public hangings served as “warnings”.

When American, British and Canadian forces came through my mother's farm village, people cheered. Her grandmother instantly hung a white sheet from the 2nd floor window.

“We surrender!” Gladly.

As German soldiers retreated, they commandeered food and stole every bicycle in the village, including the only bike my mother's family of 12 possessed.

So, choices were made during those dark years, in Italy. The Ukrainian Nazi soldier who received 2 standing ovations in Parliament made the wrong one. In my opinion.

In honoring him for his service during World War 2: Justin Trudeau and the Parliament of Canada made the wrong decision.

Chrystia Freeland's grandfather made wrong decidions as well “Mr. Speaker”. Canada harboured him after the war.

How Chrystia rose to 2nd in Command of Lord Goodhair’s WEF Occupied Canada is anyone's guess.

Who knows eh?

While I don't know exactly how we got here, I do know a bit of history, and this is how the Partigiani and pissed off Italian citizens dealt with “Il Duce” upon the liberation of Italy.

“Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.”

Just saying Justin…

Addendum:

https://peckford42.wordpress.com/2023/09/26/open-the-war-time-records

“Mr. Speaker” Anthony Rota falls on his sword. Or is thrown under the bus:

A musical interlude. While we wait for additional fallout.

The great Van Morrison just popped in: