Historians and foreign policy experts say that diplomatic screwups and pratfalls in the past have had some real-world policy consequences.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka in the House of Commons. Trudeau has apologized for honouring the man, who fought with a Nazi unit in the Second World War.
Politicians across party lines have condemned the impact the incident has had on many people in Canada and around the world, including Jews and Poles. "I haven't seen anything quite like [the Hunka incident] but I've certainly seen equally embarrassing incidents happen," Janice Stein, founding director of the Munk School of Global Affairs, said in an interview with CBC's"There are a number of incidents. Some just count as boo-boos and some ... are perhaps more serious in terms of policy," said historian Robert Bothwell.
Bothwell pointed to another miscalculation that scuttled a major Canadian diplomatic initiative with global significance. In 1935, a Canadian proposal to place oil sanctions on fascist Italy collapsed because the Canadian diplomat who proposed it failed to get the federal government to buy in. Mackenzie King's government soon disavowed it."This is one where dysfunction on the Canadian side, contradiction on the Canadian side, made Canada an international ...
"This certainly should not have happened. It was deeply embarrassing. But does it rank among the all-time hits on the Canadian hit parade? I don't think so," she said. "I don't think I've ever witnessed anything quite like what we saw on Friday and what we've seen over the past number of days," Kolga told"I've never seen the sort of frenzy that Russian propagandists have gone into over the past number of days, exploiting this situation, to try and intensify the already damaging effects that it's having, has had, on our reputation abroad, but also the divisions that this could potentially cause within our own society.
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