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The debate has occurred in both the US and Canada. Debate in the US occurred in 2004 when on the Fox News network, the cultural critic and political commentator Bill O'Reilly perceived the affair as a patronizing insult, leading him to respond by calling for a boycott of Canadian goods if [war resisters Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey were] not extradited quickly." Debate in Canada occurred on 3 June 2008 and 30 March 2009, when two motions were passed in the Parliament of Canada in support of the war resisters' efforts to stay in Canada. An Angus Reid Strategies poll taken on 6 and 7 June 2008, showed that 64% of Canadians agreed with that motion. (The motions' recommendation was non-binding and, after years, was never implemented by the minority Conservative government.) In September 2

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  • The debate has occurred in both the US and Canada. Debate in the US occurred in 2004 when on the Fox News network, the cultural critic and political commentator Bill O'Reilly perceived the affair as a patronizing insult, leading him to respond by calling for a boycott of Canadian goods if [war resisters Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey were] not extradited quickly." Debate in Canada occurred on 3 June 2008 and 30 March 2009, when two motions were passed in the Parliament of Canada in support of the war resisters' efforts to stay in Canada. An Angus Reid Strategies poll taken on 6 and 7 June 2008, showed that 64% of Canadians agreed with that motion. (The motions' recommendation was non-binding and, after years, was never implemented by the minority Conservative government.) In September 2
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  • The debate has occurred in both the US and Canada. Debate in the US occurred in 2004 when on the Fox News network, the cultural critic and political commentator Bill O'Reilly perceived the affair as a patronizing insult, leading him to respond by calling for a boycott of Canadian goods if [war resisters Jeremy Hinzman and Brandon Hughey were] not extradited quickly." Debate in Canada occurred on 3 June 2008 and 30 March 2009, when two motions were passed in the Parliament of Canada in support of the war resisters' efforts to stay in Canada. An Angus Reid Strategies poll taken on 6 and 7 June 2008, showed that 64% of Canadians agreed with that motion. (The motions' recommendation was non-binding and, after years, was never implemented by the minority Conservative government.) In September 2009, a private member's bill was introduced in Canada's Parliament in an attempt to give effect to those motions, but, in Sept. 2010, it failed to pass second reading. Debate also occurred internationally. The significance of this issue on Canada's historical international reputation as a place of refuge for "Americans in trouble" is illustrated by this quote from United Kingdom's media, the BBC, when they reported on the precedent-setting case of Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman in 2004: "Americans in trouble have been running to Canada for centuries... in the wake of the American Revolution... [in the] Underground Railroad that spirited escaped American slaves to freedom... and in the 1960s, [when] as many as 60,000 young American men dodged the draft..." After Canada deported several of these war resisters in 2008 and 2009, and after they were imprisoned in the US, the US media Newsweek, among others, reported on this historical shift. As of July 2009, there were at least 29 public cases of U.S. war resisters in Canada, or who had been in Canada, plus some families. They live in Canada legally as refugee claimants awaiting legal decisions on their claims. When they first arrived in Canada, they mostly went to Toronto, Ontario; or Vancouver, British Columbia because that is where the majority of the organizing of the War Resisters Support Campaign takes place. An unknown number of US soldiers who have refused to participate in specifically the Iraq war, have come to Canada without going public, and have not applied for legal refugee status.
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