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March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  To back up what Jars was saying, the communities have used the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter and other academic mechanisms to try to work together. Certainly, we have a good working relationship with those communities. There's only so much communities can do at a certain level. As I

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We were asked to provide community members for an event in Toronto, which we did. There was no reason that anybody who would be a donor or a community volunteer or a participant would be excluded from that kind of list.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I have outlined who has reached out to us. We've had a letter from the Speaker apologizing for his role.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Jars, do you want to start?

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Vladimir Putin is raising it over and over again. We see certain media raising it, as Jars has said. We think that the whole way that the Speaker proceeded on this needs to be reviewed as you are reviewing it. Unfortunately, we're being pulled, along with other communities, into

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  He's written us a letter to apologize for it, so I believe, from what he's written to us, that he's taking responsibility for it.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No, I have not received that kind of letter from them.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a lot of questions in there. I want to go back to something that Jars was speaking about, the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, which is another community function, another community group, that's working on it. I think that with the politicization of Ukraine, we really wan

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  There are a lot of questions in there that you've asked me. I think that what has happened, as we said after the incident, is that our community faced a barrage of accusations and questions in the media. We saw politicians from various sides, but particularly from one perspecti

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Regarding the list, we're a small, non-profit organization. We have lists of donors, volunteers and member organizations, and those are the kinds of lists that I have at hand and that I was able to provide.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I'm trying to remember. I think we had three or four days to compile from our folks in the Toronto area and Ontario who was potentially to be invited.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The question I was answering earlier was about the event that took place in Toronto on Friday night. The UCC was asked to provide a large number of people to attend a rally as part of that event. We had no involvement. We have never spoken to the Speaker's office or to the Hunka

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  For the Toronto rally—which was not Parliament—we were just asked to identify community organizations, leaders and people who had been involved in various positions. I have no insight into who was invited to Parliament or not.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn

Procedure and House Affairs committee  That's right. We provided a list of potential invitees. I don't know which of those people were sent an invitation or not.

March 21st, 2024Committee meeting

Ihor Michalchyshyn