Canada had a belated twinge of conscience last week and Parliament heard all about it.
A bill to give the vote to Canadian soldiers overseas had gone through the House of Commons with a roar of unanimous approval. Everyone was pleased. But concealed in the bill's legal verbiage was an ugly clause. It would enable any provincial legislature to bar, for racial reasons, Canadians everywhere in Canada from voting.
The clause was intended to keep Canada's Japanese from voting, had the support of color-touchy members from British Columbia. There Japanese have long been barred from the polls. The effect of the...
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