If Martin Hunka believes that his father was a hero, then in my opinion Martin does not have integrity--especially now when he can no longer claim ignorance about what his father was. He might perhaps have a strong emotional attachment to his father and to his background as it was taught to him by his father--but integrity by definition requires the honesty and moral principles to not automatically equate one's emotional attachments with the absolute truth but to look at the facts (in this case, the facts of what the SS was and what it did), even if these facts conflict with what is in one's own heart. An SS soldier should never be celebrated in the Canadian House of Commons as a hero. And yet, I fear that some people with a positive emotional attachment to the SS tried to impose their will and their sentiments on the Canadian House of Commons and the Canadian people. I do not see any integrity in this manipulation of our ignorance and confusion about history. Martin Hunka is said to have the integrity to hold a position related to healthcare. But let us not forget what "healthcare" looked like during the time of his father's "heroism:" with genocidal eugenics being the ideology to which his father swore allegiance, millions of people were murdered, many were subjected to horrific medical experiments, and people with disabilities were the victims of forced euthanasia. And the majority of Europe's Jews, as well as many other victims, had been murdered by 1945.
If Martin Hunka believes that his father was a hero, then in my opinion Martin does not have integrity--especially now when he can no longer claim ignorance about what his father was. He might perhaps have a strong emotional attachment to his father and to his background as it was taught to him by his father--but integrity by definition requires the honesty and moral principles to not automatically equate one's emotional attachments with the absolute truth but to look at the facts (in this case, the facts of what the SS was and what it did), even if these facts conflict with what is in one's own heart. An SS soldier should never be celebrated in the Canadian House of Commons as a hero. And yet, I fear that some people with a positive emotional attachment to the SS tried to impose their will and their sentiments on the Canadian House of Commons and the Canadian people. I do not see any integrity in this manipulation of our ignorance and confusion about history. Martin Hunka is said to have the integrity to hold a position related to healthcare. But let us not forget what "healthcare" looked like during the time of his father's "heroism:" with genocidal eugenics being the ideology to which his father swore allegiance, millions of people were murdered, many were subjected to horrific medical experiments, and people with disabilities were the victims of forced euthanasia. And the majority of Europe's Jews, as well as many other victims, had been murdered by 1945.