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.
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