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and an understandinc was reKbcd whereby womcft inter'nees in the two countries
were repatriated or rdeased as carty as possib'e.Jl)l While six women were
immediately repatriated. the others were released at an early date.
There were no women interned from the Naliooal Unity Party, an umbrella
orpnization made up of several domestic Fascist orpnizabons, including Quc:bc:c:'s
N.S.C.P., WiMipea:'S C.N.P., and Toromo's ean.dian Union of Fascists (C.U.F.),
This was despite the fact that the Stile was supposedly fi&htilll Fascism. There were
several women elltremely active in the N.U.P., includina Yvonne Arcand. wife of
N.U.P. leader Adrien Arcand. The IDe opced DOt 10 iDla1l Yvonne Arcand. despite
the fact lba1 she oontinued to bold N.U.P. meetings after her bllSband was interned.
Perhaps the reasonina: behind this, other than :I. wife supportina: her husband. was that
the N.U.P. memben were of Canadian srock. therefore not u likely. according w the
lOC. fa commit ttaSOnous activities. For Germans aDd Italians it was a case of
divided klyalty between their country of origin and their adopted coulltry' but dlere
was no such pull (or French and Enalisll-Canldian Fascists.
The IDC drew disdrx:tions between ilS 'enemy aliens'. the most notab'e one
heine between European CftCmy aliertl, Germans and Italians. and Japanese enemy
aliens. While German and h.lian intemea: were reviewed on a case-by..case basis the
same cannot be said for Japanese enemy aliens who faced relocation or internment ell
masse. The IDC viewed German and lralian incernees quite beniply. seeiD& Germans
IO'CSIS. 87·.\·130. 'I'M Ntzzj PIJTf1 ill Caada. February 1947, S9.
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