Next up, all of the CPC politicians who supplied coffee and donuts and took selfies with swastika flag waving Nazis during the Ottawa siege/occupation without even apologizing for it.

Just an aside, but has anyone had the misfortune to have a quick look at the comments over on r/canada or cbc.ca around these articles? The amount of dumb (i.e. simplistic, low information), seething hatred for basically everything, is overwhelming. I can't tell if this is all bots, or if something weird is coming out of the woodwork, but it seems like we've passed some tipping point and I'm starting to feel alarmed at where we are headed. I get this is super embarrassing, but no serious person could think there was malicious intent in this Parliament incident. Fuck-ups and carelessness happen, the guy resigned, time to move on and focus on real issues.

Nobody seems the least bit upset with all the nazis, fascists, white supremacists, and misogynists that make up poilievre's precious "base".

BBC coverage. Looks like this is getting global attention.

I think that it's possible for essentially random people to be honoured shows just how bad things are being run.

Does nobody do even the slightest bit of checking out who is being honoured? The whole thing makes me think that people are just running on empty, doing whatever pops into their heads without the slightest bit of actual thought.

Glorified Roombas, the lot of them, and that might be an insult to Roomba.

Trudeau should've made a statement that he was no longer welcome in the Liberal party before he resigned.

He can't fire the speaker, but he can kick him out of the Liberals. The Liberals have such a reputation for screw-ups that they need to be seen cleaning house.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Liberal MP Anthony Rota is stepping down as House of Commons Speaker after inviting a Ukrainian veteran who fought in a Nazi division to Parliament — a dramatic turn of events that will be welcomed by MPs on all sides who said the embarrassing incident was unforgivable.

While House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota has so far resisted calls to resign his post over a tribute to a constituent who fought with a Nazi unit, he lost the support of some key Liberal cabinet ministers on Tuesday — a development that makes his position increasingly tenuous.

On Friday, Rota invited 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka to sit in the parliamentary gallery for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's address to Parliament.

Government House Leader Karina Gould said Rota's lack of judgment in issuing the invitation requires that he step down from the position, which he's held since 2019.

Health Minister Mark Holland, who recently served as government House leader and worked closely with the Speaker in that role, said Rota is "a profoundly good man" and the last few days have been "incredibly difficult" for him and those who know him well.

While the NDP and Bloc Québécois said Monday that Rota needed to go, Poilievre and Conservative MPs spent the day blaming Trudeau for Hunka's presence in Parliament.

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