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:

Tomorrow @JustinTrudeau will issue a formal apology for Canada's internment of about 500 Italian Canadian suspected fascists during the Second World War. The apology is built on the false premise that they were interned because of their ethnicity: theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…
1/? I explained why the apology's premise is inaccurate in the above @GlobeDebate article. Since its publication, I've been disturbed by politicians' willingness to perpetuate falsehoods and a lack of curiosity among my journalist colleagues to find out what the truth might be. 2/?

If anyone still thinks Canada’s access to information process is not broken, pull up a chair. I have a story for you. cc @DeanBeeby #cdnpoli Eight years ago, I got a tip that Canada privately sourced medial kits to give to Libyan rebels fighting Moammar Gadhafi (remember them?) because the kits DND already had on hand had material made in Israel or marked with first aid-type crosses: macleans.ca/news/world/sec…