History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Making Money, Snaith, Meritocracy
21 Jul 2016
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Reality no machine could take the place of a person in this particular war; this war could not be won by machines. Nowadays, we use technology to avoid endangering the lives of human beings example, the airborne drone. Have to get the country behind the war effort. Any potential dissent had to be stamped out censorship, deportation, detention, exclusion, arbitrary arrest, etc. War measures act: legislation gave federal government control over trade, imports, exports, manufacturing, the seizing of property, and transportation via land, air, and sea. Very little opinion raised over this very weird that no one raised concerns over extraordinary power. One of the first things the government did was to deport and/or rally up people of different ethnicities (aka alien enemies germans, austrians, hungarians, and turks. These people became subject to imprisonment if they did not come forward war camps, mostly in western canada.
