No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.
I just finished that episode of Expats & Allies about the OUN and it planted the seed in my mind that this is all being shuttered rapidly, clumsily, and publicly with the list of names being explicitly shielded from records requests not just because of the embarrassment at how many were obvious Nazi war criminals (which is pretty obvious at this point and a national embarrassment) but because to reveal the actual details and names at this stage would unearth something even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing about the active role the state played in shielding Nazis from European war crime tribunals so they could use them to undermine domestic socialist /trade union organizations or even bolster anti-Semitic groups.
basically, that that this story isn't the really embarrassing revelation... its just where the current government is applying the tourniquet and amputating because where it could go is far darker and monstrous.
I suspect another aspect of it is that many people in the current political mainstream have direct family ties to these nazis. Freeland is a perfect example.
I just finished that episode of Expats & Allies about the OUN and it planted the seed in my mind that this is all being shuttered rapidly, clumsily, and publicly with the list of names being explicitly shielded from records requests not just because of the embarrassment at how many were obvious Nazi war criminals (which is pretty obvious at this point and a national embarrassment) but because to reveal the actual details and names at this stage would unearth something even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing about the active role the state played in shielding Nazis from European war crime tribunals so they could use them to undermine domestic socialist /trade union organizations or even bolster anti-Semitic groups.
basically, that that this story isn't the really embarrassing revelation... its just where the current government is applying the tourniquet and amputating because where it could go is far darker and monstrous.
I suspect another aspect of it is that many people in the current political mainstream have direct family ties to these nazis. Freeland is a perfect example.