Lulu Marketplace

Two linked studies document and expose a set of historical misconceptions about Canada's reception of U.S. Vietnam War resisters. No special provisions facilitated the immigration to Canada of draft-age American males. The only specific action ever taken by the Liberal government was to abandon under pressure its covert discrimination against U.S. deserters. A strange revisionism credits Pierre Trudeau himself with "opening the gates" to Canada and extending a "welcome." This folkloric belief is traced from its embodiment in a manufactured misquotation through a widespread and uncritical propagation by activists, professionals, academics, and major media. ISBN 978-0-9737641-1-6