The War Measures Act
*P.M. Borden brought in this act to have more control over canadian affair's
*Could now directly control canada's economy,transportation,manufacturing, trade and agriculture.
*Enemy Alien citizens could now be deported or sent to interment camps.
*Interment camps were supposed to house enemy aliens during the war.
*If you were arrested all money and property you owned was taken from you.
*Total of 8,579 canadians were interned between 1914 - 1920.
*Over 5,000 of them were either Ukrainian descendant, Germans, Polish, Italians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Turks, Serbians, Hungarians, Russians, Jews and Romanians.
*Taken into these camps cause they thought they could maybe be spies or army intelligence.
*Habeas Corpus: The right to be brought before a judge, was suspended.
*Income tax was also introduced.
*War bonds and this new income tax were used to pay for the war along with loans.
*Imperial Munitions Board: was set up to help with the shell crisis
*Could now directly control canada's economy,transportation,manufacturing, trade and agriculture.
*Enemy Alien citizens could now be deported or sent to interment camps.
*Interment camps were supposed to house enemy aliens during the war.
*If you were arrested all money and property you owned was taken from you.
*Total of 8,579 canadians were interned between 1914 - 1920.
*Over 5,000 of them were either Ukrainian descendant, Germans, Polish, Italians, Bulgarians, Croatians, Turks, Serbians, Hungarians, Russians, Jews and Romanians.
*Taken into these camps cause they thought they could maybe be spies or army intelligence.
*Habeas Corpus: The right to be brought before a judge, was suspended.
*Income tax was also introduced.
*War bonds and this new income tax were used to pay for the war along with loans.
*Imperial Munitions Board: was set up to help with the shell crisis