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...response to this increase in compulsory service and the recurrent agitation for a National Government, smart, aging Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe has been openly hinting at a revolt of Quebec M.P.s, active resistance from the French-Canadian third of the Dominion...
...about time for the Dominion of Canada to realize that this country is no longer going to be governed by the dictates and whims of the Province of Quebec." Almost before the speaker finished, the Canadian House of Commons blanketed his words with rolling shouts of "Shame! Shame!" and "Hear! Hear...
Because in World War I a universal conscription law caused draft riots and talk of Quebec's seceding from the Dominion, Canada's Army for World War II has so far been recruited from volunteers. For all 21-year-olds there has been a compulsory "training period" of 30 days, which the Government last month upped to four months-still not enough to most military minds for adequate training...
...reddest rag that can be waved in front of any liberal-to-leftist Canadian is a copy of the stringent Defense of Canada Regulations, drafted to protect the Dominion from subversive activities. Under the Regulations, left-wing papers have been suppressed, more than 1,500 "Communists" and smalltime Fascists have been placed in internment camps without formal trial. Regarded by the Government-as a necessary accessory to Canada's war effort, opponents see the Regulations as a dangerous breach of civil liberties...
...there is no room left for compromise. Says he: "Every thinking person knows that the whole conception of Dominion status belongs to past history; it has no future. . . . We want to be completely free with no reservations or exceptions ... in order to join a Federation of Nations, or a new World Order. . . . We do not want the so-called protection of the British Army or Navy. . . . The parting of the ways has come...