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This is a bonus episode of A Matter of Conscience: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War, featuring more of our interview with Canadian historian and author John Boyko, who wrote The Devil's Trick: How Canada Fought the Vietnam War. You heard him in Episode 10: Leaving America Behind – Deserters and the War. This interview explores Canada's complex and often contradictory role in the Vietnam War, detailing the country's significant economic involvement in manufacturing and selling weapons to the U.S. military, while simultaneously becoming a refuge for over 40,000 American draft evaders and military deserters.
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