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Background to Zuzak GRC Reports
The origin of the Zuzak GRC Reports goes back to when I (William Zuzak)
was on the board of directors and executive of the Ukrainian Canadian
Congress - Alberta Provincial Council (UCC-APC) from 2001 through 2004.
As the provincial component of UCC-National (located in
Winnipeg/Ottawa), UCC-APC (located in Edmonton) represents some 300,000
Albertans of Ukrainian origin to the provincial government. Its board
of directors is composed of representatives of several Ukrainian
Canadian organizations based in Alberta, from which the executive is
chosen.
In 2001, the late Dave Sereda was president and Ludmila
Sereditch was the paid executive director. The late Eugene Harasymiw
(1941.02.14 - 2004.10.02), President of the Ukrainian Self-Reliance
Association (USRA or TYC in its Ukrainian acronym), was very active in
denouncing the denaturalization and deportation (d&d or
d/d) policy, which was victimizing aging Ukrainian Canadian
refugees from WW2. This policy fraudulently equates alleged immigration
infractions with war criminality. At that time, Wasyl Odynsky and later
Josef Furman (from Edmonton) were being targetted with denaturalization
and deportation. A Government Relations Committee, composed of Eugene
Harasymiw, Marco Levytsky and William Zuzak, was set up to report on
the latest developments at monthly UCC-APC meetings. The issues were
discussed and proposed actions formulated.
These reports,
written in Microsoft Word 97 format, were originally archived as
UCCreport20020206.doc to UCCreport20041103.doc, but became
zuzak20050119GRC.doc in January 2005 and thereafter, when I had left
UCC-APC. The emphasis changed from UCC-APC affairs to a Canada-wide and
international perspective as gleaned from articles available on the
Internet. The format of the Reports also changed circa May 2008, when I
started listing the actual links to the articles in each category.
(Prior to that, I referred the reader to the source file such as
holodomor.html, 2001.html, etc. for each category.) Consequently, after
converting these .doc files to .html files that now appear in grc.html,
it was necessary to add links to the various articles referred to in
each Report.
The GRC Reports, that now appear in grc.html,
provide a chronological overview of the issues that have been of
concern to the Ukrainian Canadian community since 2002. The comments on
the right-hand-side of grc.html highlight particularly important events
and dates in the various categories, such as John Demjanjuk, Wasyl
Odynsky and UKAR. Hopefully, readers and researchers will find these
Reports useful.
Will Zuzak; 2012.08.19