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BRANTFORD, Ont. - An Ontario MPP will be honoured with the equivalent of a knighthood in Ukraine.

Brant MPP Dave Levac (luh-VACK) will be made a chevalier of Ukraine's Order of Merit.

The honour comes after his private member's bill aimed at remembering the victims of an artificial famine, known as the Holodomor (ho-lo-DOH-mar), passed at the Ontario legislature in April 2009.

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