Refuge from militarism no more?

Canada will not be dishonouring its own service men and women by letting the U.S. 'war resisters' stay.

"Canada should be a refuge from militarism" said prime minister Pierre Trudeau in the late 1960s as he opened the doors to an estimated 50,000 Americans. Back then young men (and women) were fleeing to Canada in response to the Vietnam War. Most of them were "dodging" the draft; some were deserte...

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