Secret internment plan included Toronto landmark

History | 206752 hits | Oct 15 10:20 pm | Posted by: Hyack

When James Laxer was growing up in Toronto, he suspected his family was under constant surveillance. But he had no idea that the Canadian government had a Cold War-era plan in place that ï¿½ if a national security crisis struck ï¿½ would have seen him, his mo

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by Public_Domain
Sat Oct 16, 2010 7:35 am
by gonavy47
Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:24 pm
An outspoken communist in a democracy, in the 50's, and he's surprised by this? Try being an outspoken capitalist in Russia in the 50's, the least treatment would be "re-education" in a gulag for twenty years. The worst would be, you would disappear, with a souvenir piece a lead in the back of your head. Of course the good ol' CBC doesn't report the other half of the story.
by Dragom
Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:42 pm
I'm sure a much smaller number of Canadian Japanese died farming garlic in the prairies then Russian dissenters died in Siberia so we're just awesome?

Don't judge Canada in comparison to Russia.

Do judge Canada by Canadian Standards.

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