In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 Ùˆ 40,000 جاء الأميركيون إلى كندا هربا من مشروع — and many of them stayed. Ùˆ نيويورك تايمز recently profiled one of these expats.

وصل مايكل ولفسون في كندا في 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. وفقا Ù„ مرات, كتب إلى المجلس مشروع, saying, “The reason I did not comply with your order [to report for military service] is that I did not, on that particular day, feel like it….”

أخيرا, على الرغم, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the جامعة تورنتو and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. اليوم, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for إحصاءات كندا.

يمكنك قراءة بقية مرات المادة هنا. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, الممر الشمالي: أمريكا حرب فيتنام مقاومي في كندا, by sociologist John Hagan.

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