The fact that some Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators is "not shocking" given its dark past of harboring Nazi war criminals, Russian Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.

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On July 24, the Jewish nonprofit organization “Forward” released a new investigation revealing that, since the 2000s, at least two Canadian streets have been named after Nazi accomplices and collaborators. These include Max Brose, a German automotive industrialist who produced weapons for Germany’s wartime efforts during World War II and was a member of the Nazi Party, and Peter Savaryn, a wartime-era Ukrainian SS combatant who fought for Ukraine’s 1st Galician division.

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Despite having fought against Nazis as a member of the anti-Hitler coalition, Canada granted safe heaven to “hundreds if not thousands” of war criminals and their accomplices in the years following the war, the ambassador added. Those individuals then settled nationwide, adopted a quiet life and proceeded to pretend being normal citizens.

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The Government of Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be following on his predecessors steps as there are no visible attempts to change course on the matter, [Russian Ambassador to Canada] Stepanov said. In addition to hiding from the public a list of Nazis it compiled by the Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada nearly 40 years ago, Canada has recently begun to vote against the annual UN General Assembly Resolution on Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribute to fueling contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance, he noted.