In the 1960s and ’70s, durante a Guerra do Vietnã, em algum lugar entre 30,000 e 40,000 Americanos vieram para o Canadá para escapar do projecto — and many of them stayed. A New York Times recently profiled one of these expats.

Michael Wolfson chegou no Canadá em 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. De acordo com o Times, ele escreveu para a junta de alistamento, 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….”

Eventualmente, embora, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Universidade de Toronto and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. Hoje, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for Statistics Canada.

Você pode ler o resto do Times artigo aqui. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, Passagem do Norte: Americana Vietnam War Resister no Canadá, by sociologist John Hagan.

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