Description
Book SynopsisThe fifth and final volume of the Canadian State Trials series examines political trials and national security measures during the period of 1939 to 1990. Essays by historians and legal scholars shed light on experiences during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath, including uses of the War Measures Act and the Official Secrets Act with the unfolding of the Cold War and legal responses to the FLQ (including the October Crisis), labour strikes, and Indigenous resistance and standoffs. The volume critically examines the historical and social context of the trials and measures resulting from these events, concluding the first comprehensive series on this important area of Canadian law and politics.
The fifth volume’s exploration of state responses to real and perceived security threats is particularly timely as Canada faces new challenges to the established order ranging from Indigenous nations demanding a new constitutional framework to protestors chal
Table of Contents
Foreword Osgoode Society Acknowledgments Preface Douglas Hay 1. Introduction: World War, Cold War, and Challenges to Sovereignty Barry Wright, Susan Binnie, and Eric Tucker 2. Constitutional Wrongs: The Wartime Constitution and Japanese Canadians c.1942–1946 Eric M. Adams and Jordan Stanger Ross 3. Prosecuting Kurt Meyer: The Abbaye d’Ardenne War Crimes Trial Craig Forcese 4. The Gouzenko Affair: From Star Chamber to the Court Room Reg Whitaker 5. The Enemy Within: Review and Comparison of Early Cold War Canadian and American Spy Trials Barbara J. Falk and Tyler Wentzell 6. Labour versus the Injunction: Insights into the Surveillance State and Public Order Policing during the 1966 Lenkurt Electric Strike Chris Madsen 7. The FLQ and Judicial Guerrilla Warfare, 1963–1972 Jean-Philippe Warren 8. The 1971 Trial of the Montréal Five: Seditious Conspiracy and the FLQ Darren Pacione 9. The McDonald Commission Investigates the RCMP Security Service, 1977–1983 C. Ian Kyer 10. Standoffs at Meares and Lyell Islands, 1984–85: Civil Disobedience and the Indigenous Land Question in British Columbia Benjamin Isitt 11. Sovereignty and Legality in the Pines: The Oka Crisis of 1990 Mark D. Walters 12. Epilogue: Canadian State Trials in Retrospect Barry Wright Appendix: Previous Titles in Series Supporting Documents List of Contributors Index
