{"id":1239,"date":"2009-10-02T00:08:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T04:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1239"},"modified":"2009-10-01T23:54:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T03:54:29","slug":"draft-dodgers-yes-deserters-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/02\/draft-dodgers-yes-deserters-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft dodgers, yes. Deserters, no."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article at the <a href=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/np\/blogs\/fullcomment\/archive\/2009\/10\/01\/john-ivison-liberals-want-open-door-for-foreign-deserters.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><em>National Post<\/em><\/a> which argues against a proposed amendment to Canadian law which would automatically grant asylum to military deserters:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> Gerard Kennedy is a man of good intentions but a new law he has proposed should be judged on its potential for unintended consequences, rather than its intent.<\/p>\n<p>The former Liberal leadership candidate has introduced a private members&#8217; bill that seeks to amend the Immigration and Refugee Act, in order that people who want to avoid compulsory military service can stay in Canada on humanitarian grounds.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m adamantly opposed to conscription in any form (military or &#8220;civilian&#8221;), and I&#8217;m quite willing to see Canada offer a refuge for those who choose not to serve (the &#8220;draft dodgers&#8221;, for instance). I&#8217;m equally opposed to allowing military deserters to use Canada as a safe haven once they change their minds about volunteering for military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an article at the National Post which argues against a proposed amendment to Canadian law which would automatically grant asylum to military deserters: Gerard Kennedy is a man of good intentions but a new law he has proposed should be judged on its potential for unintended consequences, rather than its intent. The former Liberal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[31,313],"class_list":["post-1239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-law","tag-army","tag-conscription"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-jZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1240,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239\/revisions\/1240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}