This is Frank Misericordia. He had a wife and four children and worked at the Chateau Laurier in Ottawa. During WWII he volunteered to secretly infiltrate Italy to defeat Mussolini's Fascist Blackshirts and their Nazi partners. #Cdnpoli 
From his recently declassified Special Operations Executive personnel file at the National Archives in Britain:
There were many more like Misericordia: Italian Canadians who recognized fascism for the poison it was and stood against it — even if it would have been easier to play along. They were joined after the war by immigrants who were partisans in Italy or suffered under Fascism there.
The narrative surrounding the apology for the internment of Italian Canadian suspected fascists, endorsed by all major parties in the House, erases this history and all the nuance surrounding it. #Cdnpoli
As journalists, our role in a democracy must include skepticism and the challenging of official narratives. Many of us have fallen short in this case.
To conclude, here's University of Toronto professor Franca Iacovetta, co-editor of an excellent book on wartime internment, quoted in a well done Washington Post article by @a_coletta: #cdnpoli
Actually, this deserves another listen:
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