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...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
...Lambert de Levis (near Quebec City), Georges Guenette was a hunted man, suspected of evading the draft and beating up a constable. Last week four Mounties found Guenette in his father's farmhouse. He jumped out of a window, ran across the fields. Guenette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," died without the last rites of the church...
This proposal got nowhere. But Member Chaloult whipped through a thoroughly cowed Quebec legislature, by a vote of 55-to-4, a resolution opposing the sending of conscripted Canadians overseas. Said Chaloult: "Great Britain and the United States . . . together with Russia and China have something to win in the end. Their soldiers should be used to fill...
Chaloult, who belongs to no party, picked his words with care. They pointed up French Canadian fears that invasion losses will soon compel Canada to abandon her voluntary system of overseas service, send conscripts abroad. And to support overseas conscription is still as much as a Quebec politician's political life is worth, as it has been since World War II began...
...Army has announced that it needs 48,000 more men for overseas service. The Government already has the power to change the regulations and send all men in uniform overseas, but has not done so, out of deference to bitterly anti-conscriptionist Quebec. Many Canadians suspected that a last effort was being made to avoid compulsion for zombies...