Fact File: Claim Canadian soldiers' brutal actions inspired Geneva Conventions a myth

Fact File: Claim Canadian soldiers' brutal actions inspired Geneva Conventions a myth

It’s an enduring stereotype that Canadians are unfailingly nice, quick to apologize even when they have done nothing wrong. But an online urban legend claims the opposite of Canada’s soldiers, painting a picture of troops so brazen in their brutality that international laws were rewritten to rein them in. The theory that Canadian soldiers were merciless during the First and Second World Wars and that their behaviour influenced the Geneva Convent…