The War Measures Act (enacted in August 1914, replaced by the Emergencies Act in 1988) was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers. The act was invoked three times in Canadian history:
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| - The War Measures Act (enacted in August 1914, replaced by the Emergencies Act in 1988) was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers. The act was invoked three times in Canadian history:
- The War Measures Act (5 George V, Chap. 2) 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:
* the First World War,
* the Second World War, and
* the 1970 October Crisis.
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| - The War Measures Act, 1914
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| - An Act to confer certain powers upon the Governor in Council and to amend the Immigration Act
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| - The War Measures Act (5 George V, Chap. 2) 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:
* the First World War,
* the Second World War, and
* the 1970 October Crisis. The Act was questioned for its suspension of civil liberties and personal freedoms, not only for Ukrainians and other Europeans during Canada's first national internment operations of 19141920, but also during the Second World War's Japanese Canadian internment and in the October Crisis.
- The War Measures Act (enacted in August 1914, replaced by the Emergencies Act in 1988) was a Canadian statute that allowed the government to assume sweeping emergency powers. The act was invoked three times in Canadian history:
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