At first I was puzzled by this, thinking surely such an oversight could not possibly go unnoticed by the author, then I started looking for information on these groups myself. To my astonishment I found only a handful of items that even mentioned any of the Canadian based war resistance organizations that existed during the Vietnam War. One mentioned the Toronto Anti-Draft Programme several times and another referenced The Montreal Council To Aid War Resisters once. Granted, I did not do a headlong, in-depth subject search of the entire internet, nonetheless I found it strange that so little information was readily available on the information highway that dealt with these groups, groups who were once such a visible and vocal part of one of America's most trying times. Feeling the need to fill at least a portion of that void, and perhaps simply because, "the time is right", I have taken it upon myself to offer these few pages.

In the roughly nine years or so that The Montreal Council To Aid War Resisters existed in one form or another, I was its Director for three and a half of those years. I was its Director on the day the draft was finally put to death, on the day that so-called, "President Ford" announced a so-called "amnesty" for draft resisters, on the day that the never "declared" Viet Nam War was "officially" declared over, and on the one thousand days in between. I was also there on the day that it came time to close its doors for the last time.