Ukraine attempts to censor Toronto International Film Festival

Chrystia Freeland happens to be both Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and a top spokesperson for extremist Ukrainian nationalists. According to CBC, Canada’s leading Banderista has "grave concerns" over a Canadian film-maker’s doc about the Russia-Ukraine war. “Ukrainian officials" and Chrystia have their knickers in a twist over the fact that Canadian taxpayers financed not only the film, to the tune of $340 thou, but also fund the film festival. As a taxpayer, that pisses me off too. What pisses me off even more is that our government gives way more taxpayer money to Ukrainian cultural groups affiliated with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. And while we’re on the subject of Ukrainian-Canadian bellyaching, check out this headline from the Ottawa Citizen; "Ukrainian group wants to prevent release of names of Nazi war criminals." That “Ukrainian group” is of course the UCC, itself a recipient of generous government funding, who now threaten to sue Ottawa to prevent the release of the full report of the Deschenes Commission. If you recall, that was an official enquiry into how many Nazi war criminals found safe harbour in Canada after the WW II. The Deschene Commission wrapped up forty years ago, but the list of actual names of Nazis who found refuge in Canada has been kept under wraps ever since. Somebody somehow has wielded enough shlep to keep those names hidden. For the UCC to threaten a lawsuit over this tells me there must be a lot of Ukrainian names on the list.