On the 50th Anniversary of the War Measures Act, Phil interviews Robin Philpot, publisher (Baraka Books) of "Pierre Trudeau's Darkest Hour - War Measures 1970."
The book is a stunning revelation of hitherto private memoirs and testimonies that show that, far from Pierre Trudeau's claim of responding to an "apprehended insurrection" in Quebec, Trudeau deliberately and cynically set out to criminalize the sovereigntist movement in Quebec, particularly Rene Levesque's Parti Quebecois.
The victims of Trudeau's War Measures Act were the occupants of 36,000 homes in Quebec that were raided in the early hours of an October day in 1970; the 500 political activists, labour leaders and artists arrested in the roundup and held in jail for months; and the people of Quebec whose territory was occupied by 12,500 federal troops.
As then-NDP leader Tommy Douglas correctly stated at the time, it was "overkill on a gargantuan basis."
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Interview with Robin Philpot
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