In the 1960s and ’70s, during the Vietnam War, somewhere between 30,000 и 40,000 Американцы приехали в Канаду, чтобы избежать проект — and many of them stayed. The New York Times recently profiled one of these expats.

Майкл Вольфсон прибыл в Канаду в 1968, after his application for conscientious objector status was rejected. Согласно Времена, он писал в военкомат, 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….”

В конце концов, хотя, Wolfson settled down and grew up. He earned a bachelor of science degree from the Университет Торонто and went on to receive a Ph.D. in economics from Cambridge University in the U.K. Сегодня, he has dual U.S.-Canadian citizenship and works as a senior statistician for Статистическое управление Канады.

Вы можете читать остальные Времена article here. To learn more about what happened to many of the Vietnam-era draft resisters in Canada, have a look at the book, Северная Прохождение: Американские Вьетнам противников войны в Канаде, by sociologist Джон каган.

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