Alpha77
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Cool article above, thanks
I noted this pic:
James S. Duncan, President and General Manager of the Massey-Harris Company, urging workers to vote in favour of conscription in the forthcoming national plebiscite, 1942
Seems this guy was not a favorite person for many, note the police / guards in front of him. Also his face seems not to make a friendly impression  Also note millitary looking guys sitting the opposite direction from the speaker apparently watching the crowd...were they afraid someone throws foul eggs at Duncan?
I also find this interesting:
By early 1943, men who refused to fight overseas were being ridiculed as “zombies” by GS men, women in uniform and the public at large. It is not clear when the insult was first used to depict these men as cowardly, passive and unable to think for themselves. The image was reinforced by English-Canadian newspapers and magazines, which reported on how zombies were the target of jokes and were linked to supposedly subversive elements in Canadian society, and how women refused to date zombies. A photograph in the Toronto Star in January 1943, showing a group of shipyard workers who had painted zombie faces on their welding masks, suggests that some men were proud of their decision not to fight and embraced the supposedly degrading term (“Shots behind scenes in Canada’s war factories,” Toronto Star [January 13, 1943], p. 17).
Which reminds on this:
"The use of women and children as messengers for shame and emasculation, however, is nothing new.
During World War I, the “White Feather Movement” swept across the UK, harassing and shaming men to enlist in the army. This “White Feather Brigade” began as 30 women who distributed white feathers—well-known symbols of cowardice at that time—to men in civilian clothing as a means of making their non-service more noticeable among the public.
Children were also instruments of WWI recruitment propaganda in the UK. As history professor David Welch notes, “British recruitment posters changed in tone, from appealing to an individual’s honour to ‘mobilisation by shame’. Savile Lumley’s famous poster of 1915 depicted two young children asking their father about his military prowess after the war: ‘Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?’”
Responding to these kinds of cultural and emotional blackmail, particularly from powerful messengers like women and children, will not be easy. In the short-term, non-governmental actors like parents and female peers are the kinds of credible messengers to speak out and counter this type of manipulation."
Source: https://www.start.umd.edu/news/wwi-isis-using-shame-and-masculinity-recruitment-narratives
This shaming tactic also sadly targeted eg. wounded men or on leave in the UK. There is a story these dumb women giving feathers of shame (cowardice) to a guy in a train... who then stood up and showed his 1 arm left, he lost the other on the battlefield...
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Edit, and I wonder if the strange deployment of Canadians to HK was part of this, too...were there not also Indians in HK? 
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