House of Commons staff members are not tasked with screening guests for “reputational risks,” MPs on a committee looking into the Yaroslav Hunka affair were told Tuesday.
Hunka, a veteran of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division — a voluntary unit under the command of the Nazis during the Second World War — was given a standing ovation during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to Parliament last fall.
Clerk of the House of Commons Eric Janse told the House procedures committee Tuesday that administrative staff would have conducted security screenings of all guests invited to hear Zelenskyy’s address — but would not be on
