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Canada West, 1916. Under the headline: NO CONSCRIPTION. NO WAR TAX ON LAND IN CANADA there appeared a statement from W.J. Roche, Minister of the Interior in the Borden Cabinet, dated 8 January 1916.
Through either lack of knowledge or from some ulterior motive numerous papers in the United States have recently advised American citizens that by going to Canada they incurred the risk of being drafted as soldiers in the present world-wide war. Were these articles confined only to that portion of the pro-German press, which ... have been publishing fictitious news items intended to injure the trade or stir up friction between the States and Canada, the reports might safely be let go uncontradicted, but when responsible journals are misled into publishing erroneous information regarding conscription it seems advisable to make an official pronouncement on the matter.
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