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originally posted by: Halfswede
Looks like the speaker resigned
“No one in this House is above any of us. Therefore I must step down as your speaker,” Rota said in Parliament. “I reiterate my profound regret for my error in recognizing an individual in the House during the joint address to Parliament of President Zelenskyy.
“That public recognition has caused pain to individuals and communities, including to the Jewish community in Canada and around the world in addition to Nazi survivors in Poland among other nations. I accept full responsibility for my actions,” he added.
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: Halfswede
Looks like the speaker resigned
Yes, he has stepped up and resigned after apologizing for HIS MISTAKE.
Anyone with the remotest understanding of how Ottawa works, and doesn’t, knows that this is a stretch.
The Speaker’s Office has the authority to invite a guest to the House. However, even so, they would do necessary background and other checks. And they would know to run it by PCO and PMO. Just keep all the powers-that-be in the loop; especially for a guest like Zelenskyy, who operates in a highly complex global environment.
Either Rota went rogue, as his statement of apology suggests, or he worked with PMO and PCO, which reality and past practice would point to as being the more likely possibility.
originally posted by: quintessentone
originally posted by: Halfswede
Looks like the speaker resigned
Yes, he has stepped up and resigned after apologizing for HIS MISTAKE.
Washington's role in Ukraine is different only in its implications for the rest of us. For the first time since the Reagan years, the US is threatening to take the world to war. With eastern Europe and the Balkans now military outposts of Nato, the last "buffer state" bordering Russia – Ukraine – is being torn apart by fascist forces unleashed by the US and the EU. We in the west are now backing neo-Nazis in a country where Ukrainian Nazis backed Hitler.
originally posted by: watchitburn
a reply to: OrangeOrbs
It's because they are actual Nazis. Many went to hide in Ukraine following WWII.
The Azov Battalion is a State sanctioned Nazi national guard unit.
They don't hide it, everyone has known about it the whole time.
It's just conveniently ignored by western media because they need to launder money through Ukraine.