War Measures Act
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A War Measures Act is a Canadian statute that ...
- See: Emergencies Act, Wartime Measure Act of 1918, Wartime Elections Act, Martial Law, October Crisis.
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2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Measures_Act Retrieved:2023-10-4.
- The War Measures Act was a statute of the Parliament of Canada that provided for the declaration of war, invasion, or insurrection, and the types of emergency measures that could thereby be taken. The Act was brought into force three times in Canadian history: during the First World War, Second World War, and the 1970 October Crisis. The Act was questioned for its suspension of civil liberties and personal freedoms, including only for Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 19141920, the Second World War's Japanese Canadian internment, and in the October Crisis. In 1988, it was repealed and replaced by the Emergencies Act.