Gov’t Pondered USSR Exodus

Cabinet in 1958 considered stripping a minority religious group of its Canadian citizenship and paying to deport members to Russia, according to newly-released files. The mass exodus was requested by the British Columbia government, but never approved on fears of bad publicity: ‘It would be a mass movement by ship from Vancouver to Vladivostok’.

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