Gov. website changes undermine war resisters: critics
July 5, 2009 by admin
Filed under World News
OTTAWA
– The Harper government is denying claims that it stripped a section on Vietnam from a federal website to boost its case for deporting Iraq war resisters.
Text on how both draft dodgers and resisters of the Vietnam War were ultimately allowed to stay in Canada suddenly vanished from the Citizenship and Immigration site earlier this year.
“Starting in 1965, Canada became a choice haven for American draft-dodgers and deserters,” said the passage as it appeared online in February.
“Although some of these transplanted Americans returned home after the Vietnam War, most of them put down roots in Canada, making up the largest, best-educated group this country had ever received.”
Fast-forward to 2009, and the Harper government takes a much dimmer view of dozens of U.S. soldiers who’ve come north after refusing to serve in Iraq — an invasion never sanctioned by the United Nations.
Some have already been deported to face military jail terms ranging from about six to 15 months.
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