OCTOBER 1970 WAS TRUDEAU'S DARKEST HOUR - New Book
MONTREAL, Sept. 20 /CNW Telbec/ - In a new anthology now available entitled Trudeau's Darkest Hour, English Canadian political leaders, thinkers, journalists, and writers say the Trudeau government deceived the people of Canada and denied justice by proclaiming war measures in peacetime in October 1970 in response to two kidnappings.
For Tommy Douglas it was "overkill on a gargantuan scale." For Trudeau's ministers Don Jamieson and Eric Kierans, their case was not "compelling" and they made a "terrible mistake." Peter C. Newman says Trudeau floated a "meticulously concocted lie" about a revolutionary provisional government in Quebec.
Margaret Atwood, Robert Fulford, Robert Stanfield, Reg Whitaker, Jack Granatstein, John Conway, Thomas Berger, Ramsay Cook, Desmond Morton, Hugh Segal, and David Macdonald provide testimony and insight.
Trudeau's Darkest Hour, War Measures in Time of Peace, October 1970, edited by political science professors Guy Bouthillier and Édouard Cloutier.
212 pages; $19.95; ISBN 9781926824048
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