In the wake of the scandal surrounding the House of Commons of Canada honoring Yaroslav Hunka, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced on October 4, 2023 that the Canadian government was looking into declassifying the Deschênes Commission's report. Jewish groups such as B'nai B'rith Canada have called for the report's release.
https://forward.com/fast-forward/562969/trudeau-deschenes-commission-canada-ukraine/
>https://forward.com/fast-forward/562969/trudeau-deschenes-commission-canada-ukraine/
“The expression ‘sunlight is the best disinfectant’ could not be more relevant to this situation,” Michael Levitt, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre’s president, told CBC News. “If there was ever an issue in Canadian history that requires disinfecting, it’s our shameful record of covering up Nazi war criminal immigration to Canada in the 1940s and ’50s.”
Governor General Mary Simon, the British crown’s representative in Canada, apologized for giving Peter Savaryn — a former chancellor of the University of Alberta who served in the same Nazi unit as Yaroslav Hunka — the crown’s second-highest honor, the Order of Canada.
Peter Savaryn CM (September 17, 1926 – April 6, 2017) was a Ukrainian-born Canadian lawyer. During World War II, he belonged to the Waffen-SS Galician Division.[1][2] He was among the approximately 2,000 Waffen-SS Galicia fighters allowed to immigrate to Canada.[3]
Savaryn arrived in Canada in 1949, and attended the University of Alberta (B.A. 1955, LLB 1956). Savaryn was a partner in the law firm Savaryn & Savaryn. He was married to Olga (Olya) Prystajecky (1951) with whom he had three children. He served as Chancellor of the University of Alberta from 1982 to 1986 and was involved with the university Board of Governors and Senate.
Savaryn was the president of the Ukrainian World Congress, at the time called the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, from 1983 to 1988.[4] He was also president of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta and vice-president of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada.[5][6]
Savaryn was awarded an honorary degree in 1987 from the University of Alberta, and was also awarded Order of Canada the same year. He died on April 6, 2017.[7] In 2023, after international scrutiny and outrage when the Canadian government honoured fellow SS Galician veteran Yaroslav Hunka, the Governor General of Canada Mary Simon expressed "deep regret" for Savaryn's award of the Order of Canada in a response to an enquiry from The Forward magazine.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Savaryn
The University of Alberta’s $1.4 million-dollar Nazi problem
https://www.theprogressreport.ca/the_university_of_alberta_s_million_dollar_nazi_problem
IN HONOR OF THE GREATEST GENERATION, I AM PLACING AN URGENT REQUEST TO DIG YAROSLAV HUNKA, PETER SAVARYN AND THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA