War Measures Act - Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

The War Measures Act has been questioned for its suspension of civil liberties and personal freedoms, not only for Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 1914-1920 but during the Second World War Japanese Canadian internment and in the October Crisis.

Read more about this topic:  War Measures Act

Famous quotes containing the words civil and/or liberties:

    “A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two years of age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.”
    —Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)