BREAKING: House Speaker Anthony Rota has resigned

House Speaker Anthony Rota has resigned from his post in the wake of an outcry after it was discovered that a veteran he invited to be saluted in parliament had fought for the Nazis.

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[loginet]

I'm still waiting for JT to resign. Today!

[vishal.choudhury]

He is made the scapegoat while the real culprit is still in the parliament shamelessly.

[AlergicToSnow]

If one oversight can destroy a distinguished career, why is Turdeau still here? He has done way worse than Rota could possibly.

[cocoloco]

"fought for the nazis" doesn't quite convey the fact that he VOLUNTEERED for the SS (not regular army, not even regular nazis) and keeps pushing his vile garbage on social media to this day

[k.a]

What about those who cheerfully standing up and clapping?

[blackberrythorns]

not good enough. the canadian media need to do their job and expose who we've been supporting in ukraine. verifiable facts aren't propaganda. this entire governments needs to fall.

[CanadianEhHole]

And once again, someone else falls on the sword for the failures of Trudeau and his office.

[amolsonawane]

Canada should get their own house in order before going after other countries 😁

[drbluechipx]

Jody Wilson-Raybould, Jane Philpot, Gerald Butts, Martine Richard, David Johnston, Anthony do these names have in common???

[KingDoc]

Trudolf should have resigned instead. He threw someone else under the bus for the mistakes of his office.

[sandyguerrero]

How are you gonna pick a new speaker when everyone in the room stood and clapped for that evil man? 🤬

[piche]

Seriously, why wouldn't he resign? With his retirement fund he will be just fine!

[UndeadSpaceMonkey]

This time next week. Not a single person will be talking about this and we will all be long moved on to the next thing.

[CheerfultunicGaming]

honestly I feel bad for him but he did the right thing to resign

[arsensevian]

the whole hall was clapping, everyone should apologize and leave their post, they are not worthy

[sandyguerrero]

Great start, but what about all those that stood and applauded that evil man? At the very least they should apologize to the world! 😡😡😡

[lindaphillips]

it's Trudeau's resignation we

[mazdarx]

Not really quit he still kept his seat in parliament

[Ben-nkro]

Next, Trudeau needs to step down. It was under his watch this horrendous situation happened.

[irvin]

What about Freeland? She was carrying nazi flag, why she didn’t resign?