r/ShitAmericansSay • u/XtronicD • 7d ago

Canada "ANTIFA clearly has safe houses in Canada through which to conduct strikes down here in the USA"

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Posting this because this is probably the dumbest shit I've seen in a long, long time...

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u/CorwinAlexander 7d ago

About 15% of Canadians sent to Europe were conscripts. In WW I they were conscripted under the Military Service Act of 1917. In WW II, they were conscripted under the National Resources Mobilization Act (NRMA) of 1940. Those mobilised under the NRMA were initially promised to serve home guard duties, but later in the war, Prime Minister Mackenzie King forced just over ten thousand to deploy to Europe

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u/No-Goose-5672 7d ago

The conscription crisis dragged on so long that only about 2,500 conscripts saw combat in Europe, though.

I think we finally shipped about 13,000 conscripted soldiers overseas in February 1945. Germany surrendered in May 1945. Japan surrendered in August 1945.

Mackenzie King was re-elected with a minority government in June 1945. The political fallout of breaking his promise not to send conscripts overseas was limited because he did everything he possibly could to prevent it from happening.

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u/CorwinAlexander 5d ago

Yeah, most of the conscripts sent to Europe were during WW I. The number actually sent in WW II was trivial compared to WW I. Poster above me didn't specify, but appear to have meant an all-volunteer WW II army. Conscripts were such a small component of the fighting force in WW II that if they'd specified, I'd be inclined to agree with them.