Someone recently posted a meme over in r/PeterExplainsTheJoke that suggested the Geneva Conventions were a result of previous Canadian military actions.
One commenter linked to a National Post article about the ferocity of the Canadian forces, suggesting for example, that they threw cans of food to the Germans that contained live grenades. The vast majority of commenters suggested other various anecdotal stories that Canada gassed, tortured and invented other actions which were later condemned as war crimes.
Is there any truth to this perspective?
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