Canada refuses to deport 'draft codgers'
Ottawa, March 15 2050: The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Ballimore, announced today that he has decided to invoke ministerial privilege and deny an application from the US Justice Department for the deportation of more than 150 former US citizens currently in Canada, and sought by the US for evading a military draft order more than 40 years earlier.
Most of those sought are now in their sixties and seventies, and have been dubbed by the media as 'the draft codgers'.
"These persons were granted political asylum in Canada during the 2010 war in Iran which led to the use of nuclear weapons and rendered the Arabian peninsula uninhabitable. Canada respected their brave decision not to support that war 40 years ago, and we respect it still," Mr Ballimore said.
Mr Ballimore would not speculate on the apparent campaign by the US to pursue 40 year old desertion and draft dodging warrants, however defence observers have hypothesised the campaign is actually intended to send a message to those being called up in the latest US military draft in support of its war in Central America.
"They want the current crop of draft dodgers to know the US never forgets, that if they run, they will be hunted down sooner or later," Yahoogle Military Analyst Derek Chow said.
Ottawa, March 15 2050: The Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hugh Ballimore, announced today that he has decided to invoke ministerial privilege and deny an application from the US Justice Department for the deportation of more than 150 former US citizens currently in Canada, and sought by the US for evading a military draft order more than 40 years earlier.
Most of those sought are now in their sixties and seventies, and have been dubbed by the media as 'the draft codgers'.
"These persons were granted political asylum in Canada during the 2010 war in Iran which led to the use of nuclear weapons and rendered the Arabian peninsula uninhabitable. Canada respected their brave decision not to support that war 40 years ago, and we respect it still," Mr Ballimore said.
Mr Ballimore would not speculate on the apparent campaign by the US to pursue 40 year old desertion and draft dodging warrants, however defence observers have hypothesised the campaign is actually intended to send a message to those being called up in the latest US military draft in support of its war in Central America.
"They want the current crop of draft dodgers to know the US never forgets, that if they run, they will be hunted down sooner or later," Yahoogle Military Analyst Derek Chow said.
