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Sir Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, to Monsignor Paul Bruchési, Archbishop of Montreal, January 18, 1916
The Prime Minister states forcefully that his government has no intention of making military service compulsory in any form, despite what some of the press might be saying.
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