Trudeau’s Nazi Canada

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This month Trudeau’s Deputy Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland (pictured above) “abruptly resigned from the cabinet,” Christine reported, and relinquished her position as deputy prime minister. This led to speculation that Justin Trudeau might resign. So far he hasn’t stepped down, but the results of his disastrous rule are now on full display.

“Canada’s tiny Jewish community — less than 1 percent of our population,” notes journalist Terry Glavin, “is under growing threat from these hate-filled protests, where some demonstrators have gone beyond calling for the destruction of Israel to advocate for the extermination of Jews in Canada and around the world. Police say hate crimes against Jews have skyrocketed,” all part of “the virulent strain of antisemitism now embedded in Justin Trudeau’s Canada.”

Days after the 10/7 massacre, York University astronomy professor Sarah Rugheimer was walking in a park near her Toronto home:

when she saw a poster of the Israeli hostage Elad Katzir, a 47-year-old farmer from Kibbutz Nir Oz, covered with swastikas. In the days that followed, as the war raged in Gaza, swastikas turned up all over Cedarvale. They also started appearing on the York campus . . .  As fall turned to winter, a swastika showed up in the snow outside the campus building where she works.

York’s student unions issued a declaration calling the 10/7 massacre “justified and necessary” as part of “decolonization” and “land-back” actualized. The statement “found widespread support among York’s professors—some of whom Rugheimer considered friends.” This was hardly an isolated case.

In late November in Montreal, an axis of Divest for Palestine and the Convergence of Anti-Capitalist Struggles ignited smoke bombs, threw metal barriers into the street, smashed windows of businesses and torched cars. “While Montreal burned,” Glavin notes, “Trudeau was dancing and handing out friendship bracelets at a Taylor Swift concert in Toronto. It took 24 hours for him to weigh in with a single tweet.” As Robert Spencer noted, even Nero had more class.

Days later in Montreal, Rabbi Adam Scheier took out his phone to document an anti-Israel protest. Within moments a police officer singled out Scheier and asked him to move. According to Glavin, “his mere presence as a visible Jew was perceived as provocative.” As the rabbi explained:

This is unconscionable. We’re getting the message from society that either we will not or we cannot protect you from the mob that now rules our streets. When I came to Montreal 20 years ago, it was a very different place than it is today. We used to tell visitors that you could wear your kippah and walk from one end of Sherbrooke to the other across the entire city and never for one moment have an instant of fear. And that is most certainly no longer the case.

Glavin also cites the case of former University of British Columbia professor Robert Krell, who “immigrated to Canada at the age of 11, after having been hidden by a Catholic family during the Nazi occupation of Holland.”  On 10/7:

I was horrified.I was shocked to the core by the cruelty, the rapes, the mutilations, the killing of children, the gouging of eyes . . . but I could believe it. . . .

It was like a dam burst. I can’t describe the emotional blow. I guess I thought there would be a cry of outrage about what happened, you know, from the human rights people, Black Lives Matter people, the MeToo people. I shouldn’t have been surprised, but I just couldn’t grasp the concept, that when people heard and saw what had been done to those Jews, there was nothing except celebrations of Hamas as liberators.

While pondering Glavin’s 6000-word report, consider an event the month before the 10/7 attack. On September 22, 2023, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Canadian Parliament. Also appearing was Yaroslav Hunka, 98, hailed by Speaker Anthony Rota as “a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.” The members cheered, but there was a problem.

Yaroslav Hunka served under Nazi command with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, a voluntary unit also known as the SS 14th Waffen Division. During World War II, Hunka’s unit committed atrocities against the Polish resistance and in the village of Huta Pieniacka massacred adults and children alike. Leading the applause for Hunka was deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland, who in early 2022 led the charge against the peacefully protesting truckers and froze their bank accounts.

As it happens, Freeland’s maternal grandfather Michael Chomiak edited Krakivski Visti, a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the same Waffen-SS division as Yaroslav Hunka. According to one report, the publication was printed on a press seized from a Jewish owner. Freeland has cited Chomiak as an inspiration, without full disclosure of his service for the Nazis. Strange to honor such a man in a nation that does not lack for true heroes.

Consider the Canadians who stormed the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944. Remember the Canadians of the First Special Service Force (FSSF), who scaled Italy’s Monte la Difensa in a storm, took down a heavily armed Nazi force, and helped clear the way for the Allies to move north. They would soon discover what Hitler’s forces were hiding from the world.

From the Westerbork transit camp in Holland, the Nazis deported 97,776 Jews, 54,930 to Auschwitz, 34,313 to Sobibor, 4,771 to the Theresienstadt ghetto and 3,762 to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. On April 12, 1945, troops from Canada’s 8th Reconnaissance Regiment, liberated the 876 remaining Westerbork inmates.

Full disclosure: this writer’s uncle, James Richard Billingsley, a soldier in the 8th Reconnaissance, was wounded twice in action, once by a Nazi sniper. At the outset of 2024 fewer than 10,000 of Canada’s WWII veterans remained. They now see, in their own nation, the same sort of hatred and oppression they fought against so bravely.

After the worst attack on Jews since the Holocaust, anti-Semitic mobs attack Jews in the streets, as police look the other way. As Glavin sees it, “the pattern is the same everywhere in this country: in Windsor, Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, and on and on.” If embattled Canadians thought that Justin Trudeau heads Canada’s first national socialist government it would be hard to blame them.

Meanwhile, as the anthem says, millions of Canadians are still standing on guard. Given the chance, they surely have more plus brillants exploits for a great nation.