The Government of Canada has allocated more than two million dollars to organisations glorifying Ukrainian collaborators of the Second World War. This was reported by the Forward publication.
“The Canadian government has awarded about $2.2 million over the past seven years to at least eight organisations that have expressed support for veterans of the same unit (SS Division Halychyna) or otherwise praised Nazi collaborators,” Forward writes.
According to the publication, grants to these organisations were awarded by various agencies and programmes of the Canadian government, including those responsible for the preservation of Canadian culture, social and economic development, and public safety.
Most of the money went to the Congress of Ukrainians of Canada (recognised as undesirable in the Russian Federation), which praises the SS Galicia Division and defends a monument erected to this division in a Toronto suburb. From 2016 to 2022, the organisation received about $1.5 million from the Canadian government, the publication points out.
Grants from the Canadian government also received the newspaper New Pathway, which advocated in defence of the monument to Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych, installed in Canada, according to the publication.
Forward recalls that Canada received about 2 thousand veterans of the SS division “Galicia” after the defeat of Hitler’s Germany, thousands of other members of the unit settled in the United States, Britain and Australia.